Re: Bitkeeper

[nick@snowman.net]

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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