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BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge

Posted by samzenpus on from the can't-we-all-get-along dept.

erktrek writes "NewsForge has given a brief interview to the parties involved in the (inevitable?) BitKeeper debacle." Here is some of our previous coverage.

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  1. Re:weak answer from Tridge by winkydink · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm going to disagree with you. It is immoral to reverse engineer while relying on the goodwill of the people you are reverse engineering. If you can't see that, I can't explain it any more clearly.

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    "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

  2. Re:Definitely disagree with McVoy by glesga_kiss · · Score: 1, Troll
    Sure, Larry might not like people cloning his program. Well, tough. A clone is what is needed for interoperability.

    This has NOTHING to do with interoperability. There were clients available already for the platform, and it didn't produce closed-format output (a source checkout).

    Tridge was license cracking. BK is charged per-client and he was attempting to get around that. Sure, his solution would have been OSS, but that wasn't the drive behind it.

    Have none of you worked with licensed software before? I don't know a single vendor that would be happy for someone to make a client that did not respect their licensing. Perhaps BK's business model is to distribute the server and make money from per-seat cost (I don't know). This client would sink their business. They gotta eat.