Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:18:46 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: openbkweb-0.0 |
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actually I think Larry has offered to run such a server, and has even ofered to pay for the hardware and electricity if others will pay for the bandwidth.
David Lang
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David Lang wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:13:47 -0800 (PST) > From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> > To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> > Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0 > > anyone who wants to can setup a bitkeeper server, set it to sync with > bkbits.net every 5 min and re-export the data (including the SCCS > formatted metadata) any way they want. Larry has even encouraged people to > do this. > > what he is refusing to do is to pay the cash for the bandwith to support > this. > > I'll volunteer to run such a server so that you purists don't have to get > your hands dirty by touching bitkeeper, as long as someone else is paying > the bandwidth and hosting costs (and I'm not requiring a colo facility, > someone's house with appropriate bandwidth is good enough for me. I'm > willing to cut any corners that can be cut to keep it cheap) > > David Lang > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:05:08 -0800 (PST) > > From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> > > To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> > > Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0 > > > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > But nobody seems willing to stand up and say "well, maybe if we hadn't been > > > > stealing all this music these laws might not have come into existence". > > > > > > > > I'll leave you to make the BitKeeper connection, I'm sure you are smart > > > > enough to do so. > > > > > > On this we agree. Point well made! > > > > > > The best thing for all may be a huge whip round to pay Bitmover enough > > > for them to be _happy_ to open the protocol. > > > > IMHO, Larry does not even need to "open the protocol". He could simply > > release a tool with limited functionalities under a different license. > > Wrong ? > > > > > > > > > Anyone want to start a fund? I offer to donate US$100 (and that's 2 > > > weeks income for me ATM). > > > > You might want to pass the above text through 'sed' using s/weeks/hours/ :) > > > > > > > > > > - Davide > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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