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BitMover Releases Open Source BitKeeper Client

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bits-a-shakin dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Larry McVoy, the owner of BitKeeper (also one of the guys behind LMbench) has posted a message to linux-kernel where he announces a open source client of BitKeeper, which would only allow synching against BK trees. It looks like it's licensed under the NWL (No Whining License) that will force you to 'not whine about this product or any other products from BitMover, Inc.'"

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  1. Bazaar-NG by Cronopios · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too late.

    Right know, I put my expectations on Bazaar-NG: all the goodies of GNU Arch and the simple interface of Subversion. Developed by Canonical (of Ubuntu fame).

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    1. Re:Bazaar-NG by millette · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Maybe you'd prefer a haskell implementation ? Darcs is decentralized, based on a "theory of patches" with roots in quantum mechanics.

      Written in Haskell, darcs is used on many operating systems including Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, and Windows. Darcs includes a CGI script to browse your repository from the web.

  2. Re:Strange by Chasuk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know how relevant this is, not quite getting the gist of the article, but does this sentence (linked from the word message in the article) make any difference? Or was I not supposed to follow any of the links?

    Don't worry about the license, it's a joke. BSD license OK with everyone?

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  3. Open alternatives by ballermann · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are so much real open alternatives like subversion, arch and (my personal favourite) darcs - just to name a few. Why bother with bitkeeper?

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  4. I wonder how this bitkeeper thing compares by melted · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how this bitkeeper thing compares to the state of the art, Perforce. Perforce charges $700 per seat, and after working with it for years, I can say it's worth it. Everything is just the way it should be. I wish someone would reimplement the damn thing under GPL license. After using Perforce at work, all other systems look like a joke.