Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

[lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)]

The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre
and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification.  We have
no intention of shutting down the BK free product.  We are aware that
there are 10's of thousands of developers in the open source world
who do not agree with Alexandre's narrow view of things.  You're fine,
we're not taking BK away.  I only trying to get Alexandre to see that
his definition of "help" is somewhat narrow-minded.

Cheers,

--lm

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:48:42AM -0800, lm wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:30:22PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > > Can you offer any plausible explanation other than a good faith desire
> > > to help the open source community, albeit in a non-traditional way?
> > 
> > I don't see what you've done as helping the open source community.  
> 
> So in your mind, aiding the open source community is done only through
> creating more open source.  Directly.  The fact that open source projects
> which use BK are more productive than if they were not using BK is
> irrelevant and of no value, correct?  The fact that they are creating
> more open source more quickly because of their use of BK is irrelevant
> and of no value, correct?
> 
> In that case, get the free BK users to agree with you and we'll pull the
> plug on free BK.  The point of giving away BK for free is to help you.
> If you have consensus that it isn't helping then we'll shut it down.
> 
> On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you
> might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something
> other than "more GPLed source".
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> Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com

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