Re: New BK License Problem?

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-07T19:30:12Z

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:35:22AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Could you clarify exactly why it is a problem that someone both uses
> > BitKeeper and works on potentially-competing SCM systems, if the two
> > activities are unrelated?
> ...
> > Is it that you think that direct
> > experience with BK will give someone insight into its pluses and minuses
> > beyond what they could get from just reading about it, thereby
> > indirectly making their competing product better?
>
> That's it. BK is fairly subtle, it takes a while to wrap your brain around
> it. The way it works is hard to see from the outside and it is hard to see
> the value. So blind copying is more likely to copy the wrong parts. On
> the other hand, if I'm using BK every day and then working on a clone, it's
> very easy to "do some unrelated work" to see how BK works.

Q: Does the paid license also prohibit usage by people whose companies
work on other source-management systems? In that case, well, if they
need to get used with BK to evaluate it's strong points, then they will.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs