if this happens then we are worse off then we are now, but not worse off
then we were before useing BK (diff+patch still work remember)
David Lang
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:18:12 -0700
> From: Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: New BK License Problem?
>
> Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > It always was and always will be a feature that it is easy to get in
> > and get *out* of BK. We may be pains in the butt on the license front
> > but once you are using BK, if you have to get the data out, BK makes
> > that as pleasant as can possibly be made.
>
> This is all very well, but is this not something that might change if
> someone else were to come into control of the company? It isn't hard to
> imagine some future BitMover CEO with a more Microsoft-like mentality
> looking at the product and thinking, "This 'ease of getting data out'
> has to go -- we need to make it less convenient for our customers to
> defect."
>
> It is a general problem with power that you have to worry not just about
> whether those who currently wield it will abuse it, but also their
> successors.
>
> Craig
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