From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 03:54:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D486D16A445 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 03:54:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F5243D45 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 03:54:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j933sNck054002; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:54:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4340AB69.9000209@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:54:17 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050923 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert References: <20051002210957.GA82443@tara.freenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20051002210957.GA82443@tara.freenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BitKeeper considered harmful X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:54:29 -0000 Ollivier Robert wrote: >I don't know if anyone around here is using BK or know Larry McVoy or has >any friend/relation who does but here is yet another reason to despise him >and avoid BK at all costs: > > > >I've always avoided BK in the past for many reasons (the license being the >primary one) but now, I'm going into a more active opponent mode. >Mercurial is a very interesting product, probably one of the possible BK >killers and I've been using it for 4 months now. > >I'd say that even the strongest proponent of capitalism would at least >cringe at this lame attempt to stiffle free competition. > > Hrm, perhaps. One interesting question: if it's commercial code, it's proprietary, right? And so how exactly is said developer using BK's commercial code if it's not available to him? If he has signed a NDA, that's a different issue, of course. IANAL, but that sounds a tad like libel or slander or something similar. Perhaps pistols at 30 paces? ;-) ---KDK