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BitKeeper EULA Forbids Working On Competition

Posted by timothy on from the that-isn't-the-santa-clause dept.

Col. Klink (retired) writes "BitKeeper's new EULA forbids working on the competition. Larry McVoy has told Ben Collins that he can't use BK because he works on subversion (a free revision control program). In fact, you can't use BitKeeper if you OR your company have anything to do with competing software. Free Software advocates who were upset when Linus decided to use non-Free software now have the opportunity to say 'I told you so.'"

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  1. Re:For what a EULA is worth by BadmanX · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... and for someone as utterly friggin' brilliant as Tom Lord to be utterly penniless is just wrong.

    Really? I thought the whole point of Free Software was to make sure no one ever made any money. After all, if he were really brilliant, he'd have found something to do during the day (like bus tables) that would let him continue to program at night.