Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Oct 2002 20:56:15 +0200 | From | FD Cami <> | Subject | Re: New BK License Problem? |
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jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: |>You can argue all you like that I'm wrong, I'm misguided, I don't have |>a clue about opensource or whatever. The problem is that if I did what |>you'd like to see, GPL the code, and it turns out I was right, there is no |>turning back. That's a gamble I'm unwilling to make because I am positive |>of the outcome. And given what I've been doing for the last 5 years, |>my knowledge is probably more complete than your for this particular |>space. I know it isn't a popular position to take, I'd love to be the |>guy everyone loved instead of hated, but I'm not going to screw up BK's |>future and our ability to support our users to win a popularity contest. | | | Roughly how much would you want to raise, in order to GPL Bit Keeper? Seriously, this was done with Blender... | | John.
Blender's parent company, NotANumber, went bankrupt. That's not the case of bitmover I think... And I think Larry wants to keep his own business, he has the right to do so...
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