Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:29:56 -0800 | From | Stephen Samuel <> | Subject | Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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I think you missed the point of the petition. They're not asking people to stop using bitkeeper. They're asking that it not be advocated as an OFFICIAL kernel development/maintenance process.
As you said.. What you do in the privacy of your own home/office is your business. On the other hand, what you advocate that the Open Source community do in theirs is the business of the whole community.
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:52:34PM -0500, The Open Source Club at The Ohio State University wrote: > >>have participated in active development. It is fine if some kernel >>developers choose to use BitKeeper on their own machines, but >>officially endorsing proprietary software as the means of working on >>the kernel is a large step backwards for Linux, and for the Open >>Source and Free Software communities.
> All hail the non-profit nazis from Ohio State. It's none of your > f_cking business what we use to develop software. I use a hardware
Yep. and they acknowledged that at the start of their petition
> American Arium logic analyzer and a proprietary Linux kernel > debugger. Should people be boycotted when they use hardware > analyzers to debug hardware and software with Linux. .... > How about sending me some of the killer weed you guys have been smoking. > You can pass the crack pipe around while you're at it.
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>>metadata is really a part of Linux, because people will want to use it >>when talking about the kernel. Those who can't[2] or don't want to >>use BitKeeper are left out in the cold. One of the most important .....
>>We respect the kernel maintainer's freedom to use proprietary software >>for their own purposes. And we ask the kernel maintainers to respect >>the community's freedom from entrapment by proprietary software.
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