Jeroen Dekkers writes:
And what if Linus likes BK and just doesn't release prepatches anymore and just refers to the BK repository?
If this ever happens and if it becomes a real problem for more than 1 competent developer, the Linux development will fork. As it always happened with *real* free software.
Going against linux people for using BK is like going against all free software developers that use source forge, or use vi, or use mozilla, or do cross development to non free OS. It's just irracional...
To the previous poster: I'd strongly advice not to use non-free development software to do some real free work. That creates dependencies, which will get you sooner or later, but I also would vote for respecting other peoples decisions here.
To explain: If I see a project X using a non-free tool T and I would like to fix, maintain or extend X myself (even if only internally), and would discover I needed T for that, I would avoid to rely on X (that is: depend on it), since I'd have an indirect lock into the tool T. If the authors of X don't see that as a problem + it doesn't damage the popularity of their project, than everything is Ok for them (though I -- presonally -- would still try to avoid the project).
I go against all free software developers wanting to use sourceforgetit already, saying that savannah is really a better
Certainly. But you can't force people, only convince them. Your not-so-diplomatic approach isn't working too well presently, since it isn't enough to be RIGHT. You're talking to people who insist on their freedom, remember? :-)
option. According to my knowledge vi (at least some implementations) and mozilla are free.
Free software developers shouldn't use non-free software and promote free software IMHO.
Would have been better to give a non-dogmatic reasoning for that. I just tried, hope that is understandable.
The Linux Kernel is still Free Software, has always been and I can se no reason for not staying that way just because some of the developers started using BK...
My biggest reasons for not staying with Linux are technical.
And it's also badd to change arguments midflight.
Regards -- Markus