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RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-mincing-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes ". . . and boy, is he pissed! The BitKeeper license, he told the Linux kernel mailing list, is 'the whip hand' of proprietary software. His brief but pungent comment is carried by Linux and Main."

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  1. Bitkeeper/GNU/Linux? by sterno · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well seeing as RMS wants GNU/Linux because it hilights the contribution of GNU to the overall linux environment, I wonder if Bitkeeper will be asking similar soon :). Before long it'll be:

    IBM/Sun/SGI/Bitkeeper/GNU/Linux

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  2. Bad analogy by CrystalFalcon · · Score: 2, Redundant

    This is different because occasionally, a Chevy worker will drive a Ford to work; and a McDonalds worker will eat Burger King food. Neither activity is restricted by their job.

    Nor is it restricted by BitKeeper. What they say is that Burger King won't feed McD staff its burgers for _free_, and the Chevy worker won't get a brand new Ford for _free_.

    However, they're free to buy them if they want, like the rest of the world does. They always have been free to buy them. Nothing special here.

  3. Re:point by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What are the problems?