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Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software AwardTridge wins the 2005 Free Software AwardPosted Jan 28, 2006 5:29 UTC (Sat) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)In reply to: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award by lm Parent article: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award
Hi Larry,
We don't know each, so I'm not sure how much this will mean to you. I had the pleasure of working with tridge for a few years now. While working on Samba, I can personally attest that tridge is very conservative when it comes to reverse engineering. He knows the law very well and has made conservative choices on a number of occasions when other projects haven't.
If you want to discuss the changes to the protocol you made and how tridge could have figured them out without a large number of requests to bitkeeper, feel free to contact me or continue the conversation here--trust me, there's a lot of really clever ways to approach this sort of thing.
Tridge is one of the few people I've met that I have complete faith in. That's not to say I always agree with his decisions, but if he said he didn't do something, I have complete faith in the fact that he didn't.
I won't argue with you about whether reverse engineering BitKeeper's protocol was a "moral" thing to do. It doesn't matter, it's a religious issue. If you want to hate tridge for doing that, fine. Please don't accuse him of lying though. I know you probably feel there's a lot of ill-will directed toward you (and there probably is), but that doesn't mean you have to degenerate to that level.
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