Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

Jeff Garzik
2002-04-22T17:10:30Z

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