Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:17:48 EST


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, michael bernstein wrote:

> Last time I checked, it didn't matter if a person had "cashed out
> their millions" for a program to go opensource. So fucking what.

> Serve others, not yourself.

Larry is doing us all a service by getting bitkeeper the
funding it needs to improve at the rate it has.

If the program had to survive as an open source program
without several people working on it full-time, I bet
many of the boring but necessary tasks still wouldn't
have been done ...

Source control just isn't one of those sexy things that
everybody wants to work on and on top of that it's deep
magic most people (especially me) can't figure out. ;)

regards,

Rik

-- 
<insert bitkeeper endorsement here>

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