Linus Drops BitKeeper

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 9, 2005 @11:25AM from the free-as-in-beer-not-free-as-in-freedom dept.

ravenII wrote in to mention a story running on CNet, which discusses Linus Torvald's decision to no longer use BitKeeper. From the article: "Linus Torvalds is looking for a new SCM for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. 'I've decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives,' Torvalds said in a posting. 'Rather than continuing things as normal, I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like.' Coverage on the BitKeeper announcement from earlier this week is also available. Update: 04/10 16:36 GMT by Z : Updated to reflect the story's origin.

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not surprising though by roman_mir · 2005-04-09 12:11 · Score: 1, Troll

I remember reading this article and leaving comments on it. RMS was quite clear:

JA: What about the programmers...

Richard Stallman: What about them? The programmers writing non-free software? They are doing something antisocial. They should get some other job.

My answer to that was not quite polite.

BTW. don't be surprised to get -2Troll in a short while here.

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