Re: New BK License Problem?

FD Cami
2002-10-06T18:35:21Z

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jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
|>You can argue all you like that I'm wrong, I'm misguided, I don't have
|>a clue about opensource or whatever. The problem is that if I did what
|>you'd like to see, GPL the code, and it turns out I was right, there is no
|>turning back. That's a gamble I'm unwilling to make because I am positive
|>of the outcome. And given what I've been doing for the last 5 years,
|>my knowledge is probably more complete than your for this particular
|>space. I know it isn't a popular position to take, I'd love to be the
|>guy everyone loved instead of hated, but I'm not going to screw up BK's
|>future and our ability to support our users to win a popularity contest.
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| Roughly how much would you want to raise, in order to GPL Bit Keeper?
Seriously, this was done with Blender...
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| John.

Blender's parent company, NotANumber, went bankrupt.
That's not the case of bitmover I think...
And I think Larry wants to keep his own business, he has the right to do
so...

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