| Subject | Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers | From | Colin Walters <> | Date | 05 Mar 2002 18:19:13 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:01, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Use is another way of advocacy. When you start using something, you get > used to it,
Sure.
> and when you talk to others, you end up advocating it because > it's what you're used to, and probably other options aren't as good (to you).
There is a difference between advocating something personally, and advocating it in one's official capacity as the maintainer of a project. It is the latter "official" sense which the petition is against.
> IIRC, bitkeeper, is open source. It just doesn't have a free license. I > could be wrong(I haven't checked). If I am, someone will say so...
You are wrong.
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/x/i/xiphmont/Public/critique.html
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