What do to about BitKeeper and the Linux Kernel (was: BitKeeper licence critic)

Jeroen Dekkers jeroen at dekkers.cx
Sat Mar 16 13:16:10 UTC 2002


On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:40:53PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >From: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen at dekkers.cx>
> 
> >I don't see why I should even care about Linux and especially Linus at
> >all. Personally, I just help finishing the GNU system instead of
> >caring about the GNU/Linux variant. I don't see why people supporting
> >free software want to get associated with some bunch of people
> 
> If so many people who are talking about free software would work on Hurd,
> it would be a usable OS for years.

True, but those people talking about free software don't work on
GNU/Hurd but work on GNU/Linux and complain about Linus using
bitkeeper on this list. I just want to point out that they could work
on GNU/Hurd instead of complaining. That would be far more useful
IMHO.

Jeroen Dekkers
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