From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 2 4:41:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BA337B69E; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 04:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p44-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.109]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA29228; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:41:10 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3937996F.EDE92DD8@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:24:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LinuxExpo report References: <20000601094240.A48761@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > Perforce > > Had a long chat with the Perforce guys, who seemed to be quite cool. > More than once they said that they'd open up the code, if only they > could work out a business model for it that would work. I sympathised. > > Apparently, if you use Perforce for free software projects you can use > it for free, and they have a CVS repo-import tool. Sadly, they lack > the equivalent export tool. Apparently, the Perl developer core use > Perforce internally, but filter submissions through a CVS tree first > (so they never have to export to CVS). We're probably a bit too big > and distributed for this to happen though. > > What I did learn is that FreeBSD is their development platform, and all > the other versions are ports from that code. They also have some big > clients (Adobe and Amazon to name a couple). There has to be some way > we can get some publicity out of this. You _do_ know the FreeBSD project uses Perforce internally in at least one side project, right? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as agreeable as Boba Fett dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.bsdconspiracy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message