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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:18:57 -0600
From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:50:39PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > So you're telling me that what I've been doing over the
> > > last months really shouldn't have been possible ?
> > 
> > What he is telling you is that people whose business is hidden 
> > behind corporate firewalls so that they can make money with proprietary
> > work, find it morally outrageous that other people don't give away all
> > their work. 
> 
> The main reason we use firewalls is to protect the privacy of user data. I 
> don't think people would be very amused if they find their bank account 
> numbers posted on the internet ;-)

I don't care what information you keep private. I just find the 
popular the "your work is free, but of course we are in a company" theory
of business to be amusing. If you work at a bank, the decision on whether or
not to purchase a bitkeeper license is a business decision that has nothing
to do with the ideology of free software - unless you are some new type of
bank that is in business to do good.




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