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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:10:11 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:50:25PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 22 April 2002 17:44, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:53:13PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > I hope I made it clear that I believe BK is helping Linux.  Furthermore, I
> > > don't see why Larry should not collect some advertising for his contribution.
> > > Within limits.  IMHO, we're on the wrong side of the limit at the moment,
> > > and moving further with no sign of moderating.
> > 
> > Yes, because so many purchasing managers spend their time reading the
> > Documentation subdirectory of the Linux kernel in order to decide what
> > SCM system they should use.
> > 
> > The existence (or non-existence) of the docs has absolutely no marketing
> > value to BK.
> 
> So you have no problem with moving them to a website, leaving a url in
> SubmittingPatches?

Do you have a problem with moving other docs out to Websites, which are
describing closed-spec hardware?  Such hardware (and their vendors) are
actively anti-open source, yet we have documents describing those, too.

	Jeff



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