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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:12:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025171223.GA4503@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025164732.GE14325@dualathlon.random>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:47:32PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:20:22AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > The implication that Andrew doesn't use BK is incorrect, we see him in
> > the logs all the time. [..]
> 
> I assume this is great news for bitmover: one more tainted open source
> developer that will not be allowed by law to ever compete with your
> business, right? Anyways this is offtopic for l-k, but you can still
> celebrate elsewhere.

You have made this point hundreds of times, everyone knows your position
that we're screwing over the open source world by preventing them from
copying our work.  OK, I can see that you think that, we respectfully
disagree because we feel we have to protect our IP.  Rightly or wrongly,
we feel we did some new work that is worth protecting.

The big flaw in your position is that you are not tainted, you are a good
programmer, you claim to care deeply about this issue, so you could go
solve the problem.  Either by fixing arch or creating your own system.
You should be the poster child for why the BitKeeper license is a
flawed idea.  

We both think we care about helping the kernel.  You think that we're
screwing over a pile of people who could write a GPLed SCM system.
We think that that is not true and you yourself prove our point.  Kernel
guys like working on the kernel.  If they liked working on SCM they would
be doing that, there would be a GPLed answer that was better than BK or at
least good enough, and we wouldn't be arguing, we'd probably be friends.

So who cares more about the kernel development process?  The guy who took
crap from you and your friends for years but cared enough to keep going
because what counted were _results_, or the guy who sits around and whines
that we are polluting the well which was already dry?
-- 
---
Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 161+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <41752E53.8060103@pobox.com>
     [not found] ` <20041019153126.GG18939@work.bitmover.com>
2004-10-19 16:06   ` BK kernel workflow Jeff Garzik
2004-10-19 21:33     ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-19 21:38       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-19 21:54         ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-19 22:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-20  7:35             ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-23 16:12             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-24 10:24               ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-24 14:44                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-24 16:44                   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-24 23:32                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-25 11:33                       ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-25 11:46                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 12:29                         ` Joe Perches
2004-10-25 13:39                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 15:14                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-25 15:43                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 16:10                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-25 17:22                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 20:04                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-26  2:19                                   ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 16:20                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-25 16:47                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 17:12                                 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2004-10-25 17:34                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-25 17:18                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-25 17:37                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26  0:06                                   ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-26  0:51                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-26  2:21                                       ` Miles Bader
2004-10-27  2:05                                       ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-27  3:00                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27  4:18                                           ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-27 16:45                                             ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-27 18:12                                             ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-27 20:56                                           ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-27 21:20                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-28  1:14                                               ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-28  1:34                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-27 21:45                                             ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31 19:50                                               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-28  9:20                                           ` James Bruce
2004-10-28 11:39                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-28 13:53                                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-28 14:06                                               ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-28 15:10                                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-28 19:20                                                   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-28 19:25                                                   ` David Schwartz
2004-10-28 19:38                                                     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-10-28 19:22                                                       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-28 23:22                                                       ` David Schwartz
2004-10-28 23:59                                                         ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29  0:25                                                           ` David Schwartz
2004-10-29 14:31                                                             ` Scott Lockwood
2004-10-29 14:35                                                               ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-29 17:02                                                               ` The requested ruling (Was: BK kernel workflow) Scott Lockwood
2004-10-30  2:08                                                                 ` David Schwartz
2004-10-28 19:59                                                   ` BK kernel workflow Adrian Bunk
2004-10-28 21:35                                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-30  6:51                                                       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-30 23:46                                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-30 23:05                                                           ` Alan Cox
2004-10-31 17:47                                                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31  0:28                                                           ` Robert Love
2004-10-31  1:11                                                           ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-29 17:19                                                   ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-29 17:36                                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-29 18:06                                                       ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-29 18:20                                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-29 18:08                                                       ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-29 18:21                                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-29 18:33                                                         ` Scott Lockwood
2004-10-29 18:55                                                           ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-29 19:14                                                             ` Scott Lockwood
2004-10-30  5:04                                                               ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-30 20:42                                                                 ` Scott Lockwood
2004-10-30 23:35                                                                   ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31  0:20                                                                     ` David Schwartz
2004-10-31  2:37                                                                     ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-31  3:34                                                                       ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31  4:01                                                                         ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-31  4:39                                                                           ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31  2:44                                                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-29 19:39                                                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-29 20:33                                                               ` Stephen Frost
2004-10-29 23:38                                                                 ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-29 21:11                                                               ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-30  2:39                                                               ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-30  2:02                                                             ` Al Viro
2004-10-29 19:13                                                           ` Ramón Rey Vicente
     [not found]                                                             ` <45898.65.208.227.246.1099077395.squirrel@www.lrsehosting.com>
2004-10-29 19:26                                                               ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-29 23:01                                                                 ` Tim Hockin
2004-10-29 20:32                                                       ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-29 22:41                                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-30 11:38                                                           ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-31 21:03                                                       ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 21:14                                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31 21:21                                                           ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 21:35                                                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31 21:46                                                               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 23:44                                                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-11-01  3:16                                                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-01  4:57                                                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-11-01  8:39                                                         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-26  1:01                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-27  2:30                                       ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-27  3:54                                         ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-27 20:58                                           ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-27 21:16                                             ` Joe Perches
2004-10-28  0:54                                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-28  1:49                                               ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-28  2:35                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-28  3:09                                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-28 21:03                                                   ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-28 21:39                                                     ` Eric Mudama
2004-10-28 22:45                                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-28 22:54                                                       ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-29  8:09                                                       ` Manu Abraham
2004-10-29 14:28                                                         ` Scott Lockwood
2004-10-29 15:49                                                         ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-29 16:41                                                           ` David Schwartz
2004-10-29 17:20                                                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-10-30  0:41                                                               ` David Schwartz
2004-10-29 19:03                                                             ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-29 20:00                                                               ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-30  0:41                                                               ` David Schwartz
2004-10-31 20:47                                               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-31 20:53                                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-31 22:07                                                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-28  1:05                                             ` Theodore Ts'o
     [not found]                                   ` <mailman.1098759000.989.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2004-10-30  3:55                                     ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-10-25 19:51                                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-26  0:58                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26  2:23                                     ` Miles Bader
2004-10-25 18:18                               ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-25 23:01                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-26  1:28                                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-10-26  2:26                                   ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-26  6:57                                     ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-26 13:09                                   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-24 17:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 17:48                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 18:39                     ` Michael Buesch
2004-10-26  7:32                       ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-24 22:33                   ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-24 23:04                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-19 23:27           ` Greg KH
2004-10-25 13:01             ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-25 14:39               ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-25 15:48               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-25 16:35                 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-25 22:05                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-20  8:31     ` maximilian attems
2004-10-20  9:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-26  7:38 Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-26 14:23 ` Larry McVoy
2004-10-26 18:16   ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 19:22     ` Larry McVoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-26 15:54 Chuck Ebbert
2004-10-26 20:47 ` Larry McVoy
     [not found] <fa.gikv4k0.1tk6shk@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.d7r9f2v.1i6a6on@ifi.uio.no>
2004-10-30 20:54   ` walt

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