From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261405AbVBOCme (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:42:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261515AbVBOCmd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:42:33 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:9964 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261405AbVBOClp (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:41:45 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tristan Wibberley Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:46:04 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <58cb370e05021404081e53f458@mail.gmail.com> <20050214150820.GA21961@optonline.net> <20050214154015.GA8075@bitmover.com> <87wttbq8fd.fsf@freitag.home.jstuber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-158-66-156.range81-158.btcentralplus.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: sss X-MailScanner-From: glk-linux-kernel@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:54:14 +0100, Juergen Stuber wrote: > g BK, I can immediately start working on another SCM > but I can't go back to BK immediately IMHO, it should be the other way around, and more like two years, then you can buy back time at something like 1/12th full BK license price per month that you want less than the two years. Two years would be more appropriate since you need to make sure that coders who've worked on the other SCM before are well and truly out of touch with the code when they go back. With that scheme, if you have a serious business case for writing a new SCM *today* you just have to factor an extra cost into your plans (double BK license), and if you want to work on an open source one, you just have to wait while BitMover gets another two years on their head-start. Now only people with determined plans can switch from using BK to working on an SCM, and BitMover can get new users benefiting from their kindness and lifting their market penetration as easily as possible. -- Tristan Wibberley