From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268198AbTGSJaf (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:30:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268390AbTGSJae (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:30:34 -0400 Received: from ip4.73.1311O-CUD12K-02.ish.de ([62.143.73.4]:8619 "EHLO mocm.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268198AbTGSJad (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:30:33 -0400 From: Marcus Metzler Message-ID: <16153.4912.250215.903032@sheridan.metzler> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:45:20 +0200 (CEST) To: Larry McVoy Cc: David Schwartz , Richard Stallman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bitkeeper In-Reply-To: <20030718222702.GC658@work.bitmover.com> References: <20030718204405.GA658@work.bitmover.com> <20030718222702.GC658@work.bitmover.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: mocm@mocm.de X-Face: X!$Vwl\?,AW_[zm^ej\MLxN>q;R?C_sRZ*XE4V;BGT28Ewyd\:TS')W'G#Dgay8ci$*{lEd 02(Nk0OndG\752U>lozmb_R1poDm6mgHm_4.}bdS0hh.`xGUI.X2x_50T9.?_v~.,QI*$2:Q=HV@>F IP6%l~E:T|w,X[eC;|YD(A9X'sS"r$l]g<4CjAm4|f7o0>6zGwUPLinP0.d=E+_%?4>0A9'esEZ=9h $#b[g*/q/g'GVj-hDc,+V_]1.H^N,1Bju,>5FZn"B Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy writes: > Who do you think is going to win that one? > > Besides, have you considered that it is that license you appear to > dislike so much which provides for the product, the hosting, the free > public machines, the support, all of that? It's a pile of money and > time and I don't see RMS steppng forward with an open checkbook. > > The license means we have a revenue stream. We use a significant portion > of that revenue stream to help Linux. If the revenue stream goes away > then so do the services we provide to you for free. They obviously > have value or you wouldn't be using them. > -- > --- Oh come on, you use Linux for testing and improving your software and spin it in such a way that you do something charitable. From all your mailings on this list I don't get the impression that you would do anything that is not to improve your profit. I bet you can tax deduct all that money you allegedly spend on linux and thereby increase your profit. Anyway, this is no subject for the kernel list. Let those who want to support Larry use bitkeeper and those who rather use free software use something else. Marcus -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Dr. Marcus O.C. Metzler | | |--------------------------------|-----------------------------------| | mocm@metzlerbros.de | http://www.metzlerbros.de/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/