Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:08:18 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > I've said about, uh, three times now that I'm not losing anything. > > Problem? Well partly I just can't be assed to use the thing because > I'm comfortable with my own scripts and all revision control systems > just get in your face and suck. But also because I'm here to improve > the body of public software, and at the end of the day, any support > which I put into bitkeeper won't help there. (using == supporting).
FWIW, I've "gotten" your problem with BitKeeper for a while now...
..And I'm glad you're speaking out and holding the torch here. We need dissenters to keep us BK users honest :)
[i.e. the same reason that, while I might not agree with RMS, I think the Linux community and free software in general need him to be around. We need activists willing to hold the hard line.]
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