Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement ofBitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:11:53 -0800

Colin Walters wrote:
>> You apparently missed the fact that the the petition was not against the
>> *use* of proprietary software at all. In fact, we explicitly mentioned
>> that everyone is free to make that choice individually. What the
>> petition is against is the *advocacy* of the proprietary BitKeeper
>> software by the kernel maintainers.

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:54:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> How do they have any business telling me what to advocate?
> That doesn't sound like free speech nor free thought to me.

This doesn't sound like kernel hacking to me.
May we now resume our reguarly scheduled kernel programming?

...my .procmailrc overfloweth, as does /dev/null...

Bill
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