Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you

Brian McGroarty
2003-03-14T18:18:26Z

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:43:47AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:50:55PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> >
> > Ok, Larry, you have finally done the coyote stunt. Please report how it really
> > feels, stepping of the cliff.
>
> It feels just fine, perhaps because I haven't stepped off any cliff.
>
> You might want to stop and consider what SuSE would do if someone decided
> they didn't like SuSE and came up with a pathetic shell script and started
> describing it as "a system compatible with SuSE". I'm pretty sure that
> your lawyers would be all over them in about 30 seconds. Ditto for Red

To make the analogy more appropriate...

I am sure that SuSE would be all over the party titling and promoting
the shell script, but I don't think SuSE would be so quick to mention
anything to do with the employer of the person who independently
created the shell script.