Re: Bitkeeper

nick
2003-07-18T20:07:32Z

How about all of you take a much nicer tilt on this, and ask McVoy (who's
already giveing you the software free) his price to GPL bitkeeper.
Nick

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > I think it would be appropriate at this point to write a free client
> > that talks with Bitkeeper,
>
> Maybe. I'll leave that decision to whomever decides to
> invest his time and/or money in implementing such software.
>
> > and for Linux developers to start switching to that from Bitkeeper.
>
> That would be a bit premature. I certainly wouldn't switch
> to a piece of software that doesn't exist yet. ;)
>
> To put it more bluntly: free software would have to implement
> a very significant amount of Bitkeeper's functionality before
> I would ever consider switching to it.
>
> At the moment there simply is no equivalent free alternative
> to Bitkeeper, so there's nothing to switch to. Once such an
> alternative exists we could continue this debate.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Rik
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