From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270346AbTGRUHc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:07:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270350AbTGRUHc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:07:32 -0400 Received: from snowman.net ([66.93.83.236]:21517 "EHLO relay.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270346AbTGRUHa (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:07:30 -0400 From: nick@snowman.net Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:22:19 -0400 (EDT) To: Rik van Riel cc: Richard Stallman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bitkeeper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > Great minds drink alike. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >