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

Jeff Garzik
2002-04-22T17:55:10Z

(Linus CC removed)

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:44:43PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Focussed on BitKeeper. It's the license. Simple, we can all coexist happily,
> and profit from each other's endeavors, but our little commons here should not
> be carrying Bitkeeper ads.

Should we remove all mention of .com email addresses too?

On of the very few requirements of my job at mandrakesoft is to use
a mandrakesoft.com email address... as advertisement. Many other
email addresses are used similarly. reiserfs included _blatant_
advertisements in printk, for the sponsors of the code. A ton of
other code has similar advertisements, though not at

Should we remove all advertisements from the kernel? A Big Penguin
would probably object to the removal of this printk advertisement
for Swansea:

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

If the answer is no, then you are targetting BitKeeper specifically...

The Linux kernel is not a commons. Thankfully. Linus prevents that.
Otherwise, we _would_ have the infamous Tragedy of the Commons.

Jeff