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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:05:32 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Version control software (was: Patch sets to date and timing tests 
 with Giant out of userret.)
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 February 2002 at 16:44:06 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:51:31PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >> Bitkeeper enforces the linux devleopment model
> >> to a large extent,
> >
> > In what way(s)?
> 
> I'd be interested in this too.  I've been using Bitkeeper for, well,
> Linux development, but I don't see anything which locks it in to that
> direction.  Of course, Bitkeeper isn't free either, so there's no
> particular reason to prefer it to p4.

Bitkeeper is free if you publish your repository; P4 is free
if you are a free software project.  Otherwise, they cost.

Both are barriers to commercial utilization of free code, in
the same way.

-- Terry

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