McVoy's ethics are fine... [LWN.net]

McVoy's ethics are fine...

Posted Jun 3, 2005 18:45 UTC (Fri) by dank (subscriber, #1865)
Parent article: Linux dispute boils over to MySQL, other projects (ComputerWorld)

Larry's ethics are just fine. He may not be very popular now,
and he definitely has some rough edges, but he's well within his rights.

So lay off. There are several silver linings to this
unpleasant situation:

1) Linux benefitted from Bitkeeper for several years. This
was a really good thing.

2) Subversion and other projects are now a lot closer to being
able to pick up where Bitkeeper left off, and lots of people
are now working on this problem. As a result, we will have good
free replacements for Bitkeeper in the not-too-distant future.

So it is, as they say, all good.

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I quite disagree

Posted Jun 3, 2005 19:19 UTC (Fri) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link]

McVoy is still at it. When he saw the end coming he decided the best thing to do was try to give the industry a sucker-punch. Obviously it's taken him a long time to get over his hurts. Notice I said *his* hurts because he will continue to 'go' on about things while the rest of the world has 'moved' on.

I saw a blurb on May 20th that said that MySQL AB was dropping BK and sent them a thank-you at that time.

McVoy's tactics, "The sky is falling", won't get him any further. Maybe he shoud do like SCOX and send out threatening letters...

I quite disagree

Posted Jun 4, 2005 15:37 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Well, the important thing is that after July 1, McVoy loses any influence over the community that he might ever have had and it is extremely unlikely that he will ever be able to gain a foothold again.

The other piece of good news is that the Linux Kernel guys have demonstrated that it is possible to dump Bitmover's much vaunted generalized solution and replace it with a more specialized one without all that much difficulty. You can bet that Bitmover's customers are watching. And if they aren't, you can bet that there are plenty of people around who are ready and willing to point out to them both the possibility, and the cost savings.