Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Stallman <> | Subject | Bitkeeper | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:51:36 -0400 |
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> If you are trying to copy BK, give it up. We'll simply follow in the > footsteps of every other company faced with this sort of thing and change > the protocol every 6 months. Since you would be chasing us you can never > catch up. If you managed to stay close then we'd put digital signatures > into the protocol to prevent your clone from interoperating with BK.
I think it would be appropriate at this point to write a free client that talks with Bitkeeper, and for Linux developers to start switching to that from Bitkeeper. At that point, McVoy will face a hard choice: if he carries out these threats, he risks alienating the community that he hopes will market Bitkeeper for him. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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