Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:52:03 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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Michael Bernstein wrote: > I would really examine the path you are choosing and the message you let out > by FORCING people to utilize bitkeeper. I've already lost most of my faith > in opensource, and in general, the whole bitkeeper issue is starting to > squash any faith I have left.
Lets stop the fud RIGHT NOW.
Nobody is forcing anybody to use BitKeeper.
Linus still accepts GNU patches via e-mail from primary kernel maintainers a.k.a. lieutenants, as well as "regular" kernel developers. The pre-patches, patches, and full tarballs continue to be posted uninterrupted, just like pre-BitKeeper.
Jeff
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