Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:54:17 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BitKeeper considered harmful Message-ID: <4340AB69.9000209@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20051002210957.GA82443@tara.freenix.org> References: <20051002210957.GA82443@tara.freenix.org>
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Ollivier Robert wrote: >I don't know if anyone around here is using BK or know Larry McVoy or has >any friend/relation who does but here is yet another reason to despise him >and avoid BK at all costs: > ><http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/>; > >I've always avoided BK in the past for many reasons (the license being the >primary one) but now, I'm going into a more active opponent mode. >Mercurial is a very interesting product, probably one of the possible BK >killers and I've been using it for 4 months now. > >I'd say that even the strongest proponent of capitalism would at least >cringe at this lame attempt to stiffle free competition. > > Hrm, perhaps. One interesting question: if it's commercial code, it's proprietary, right? And so how exactly is said developer using BK's commercial code if it's not available to him? If he has signed a NDA, that's a different issue, of course. IANAL, but that sounds a tad like libel or slander or something similar. Perhaps pistols at 30 paces? ;-) ---KDK
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