From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:22:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319002241.K17410@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020318212617.GA498@elf.ucw.cz> <20020318144255.Y10086@work.bitmover.com> <20020318231427.GF1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:14:28AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Pavel, the problem here is your fundamental distrust.
> By giving me binary-only installer you ask me to trust you. You ask me
> to trust you without good reason [it only generates .tar.gz and
> shellscript, why should it be binary? Was not shar designed to handle
> that?], and that's pretty suspect.
Bitmover doing anything remotely suspect in an executable installer
would be commercial suicide, do you distrust realplayer too?
did you distrust early netscape before they released source?
yada yada countless other programs..
If your distrust of commercial organisations providing binaries
is so great, you know where objdump, strace and friends are.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-18 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 21:26 Bitkeeper licence issues Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 22:42 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-18 23:14 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 23:22 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-18 23:43 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 8:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 2:02 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 8:21 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-19 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 22:04 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <20020319215800.GN12260@atrey.karlin.m__.cuni.cz>
2002-03-20 22:42 ` Ton Hospel
2002-03-19 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 23:25 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:54 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-03-19 23:56 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-20 17:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 18:04 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 20:34 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-19 23:34 ` Tom Rini
2002-03-20 0:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 11:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-20 7:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-19 0:00 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 1:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 1:18 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 18:42 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 19:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 20:01 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-19 23:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:19 ` Robert Love
2002-03-19 23:26 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-19 23:31 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-20 0:02 ` Thomas Dodd
2002-03-20 0:19 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Petko Manolov
2002-03-21 19:44 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-03-21 20:29 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-27 14:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-03-20 0:05 ` James Simmons
2002-03-19 20:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-20 0:14 ` Kurt Ferreira
2002-03-20 2:16 ` Greg Hennessy
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-21 19:14 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-21 20:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-22 0:02 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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