From: nick@snowman.net
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:22:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0307181621530.16266-100000@ns.snowman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307181603340.21716-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 19:51 Bitkeeper Richard Stallman
2003-07-18 20:06 ` Bitkeeper Rik van Riel
2003-07-18 20:22 ` nick [this message]
2003-07-18 20:40 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Pavel Machek
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18 20:32 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Rik van Riel
2003-07-19 18:42 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 18:49 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 18:57 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 19:05 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 20:02 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-18 20:09 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:58 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:17 ` Bitkeeper Mike Fedyk
2003-07-18 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 8:20 ` Bitkeeper Eric W. Biederman
2003-07-19 15:34 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-18 22:29 ` Bitkeeper Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-18 20:30 ` Bitkeeper Michael Buesch
2003-07-18 20:36 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:08 ` Bitkeeper David Schwartz
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:23 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 21:50 ` Bitkeeper David Lang
2003-07-18 21:54 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-18 22:16 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 22:01 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:27 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 9:45 ` Bitkeeper Marcus Metzler
2003-07-19 20:42 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 21:57 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 22:28 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-20 0:02 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:10 ` Bitkeeper Tupshin Harper
2003-07-20 0:26 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 1:11 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:28 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-20 0:30 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 0:50 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:22 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <3F19DA04.80809@c-zone.net>
[not found] ` <20030719235526.GA31428@work.bitmover.com>
2003-07-20 0:21 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-19 23:57 ` Bitkeeper Pavel Machek
2003-07-18 21:06 ` Bitkeeper Jörn Engel
2003-07-18 22:00 ` Bitkeeper Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-18 22:25 ` BK is not heaven, sure [Was: Re: Bitkeeper] J.A. Magallon
2003-07-18 23:50 ` Bitkeeper James Simmons
2003-07-19 1:05 ` offtopic crap (was Re: Bitkeeper) David S. Miller
2003-07-19 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 2:50 ` Bitkeeper Zack Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-19 16:00 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-07-19 16:17 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-19 10:33 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 8:21 BitKeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 22:26 ` BitKeeper Pavel Machek
2003-02-16 11:40 ` BitKeeper John Bradford
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