Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:24:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LinuxExpo report Message-ID: <3937996F.EDE92DD8@newsguy.com> References: <20000601094240.A48761@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > > Perforce > > Had a long chat with the Perforce guys, who seemed to be quite cool. > More than once they said that they'd open up the code, if only they > could work out a business model for it that would work. I sympathised. > > Apparently, if you use Perforce for free software projects you can use > it for free, and they have a CVS repo-import tool. Sadly, they lack > the equivalent export tool. Apparently, the Perl developer core use > Perforce internally, but filter submissions through a CVS tree first > (so they never have to export to CVS). We're probably a bit too big > and distributed for this to happen though. > > What I did learn is that FreeBSD is their development platform, and all > the other versions are ports from that code. They also have some big > clients (Adobe and Amazon to name a couple). There has to be some way > we can get some publicity out of this. You _do_ know the FreeBSD project uses Perforce internally in at least one side project, right? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as agreeable as Boba Fett dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.bsdconspiracy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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