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Bitkeeper after the storm - Part 1 (NewsForge)Bitkeeper after the storm - Part 1 (NewsForge)Posted May 13, 2004 4:55 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)In reply to: Bitkeeper after the storm - Part 1 (NewsForge) by vmole Parent article: Bitkeeper after the storm - Part 1 (NewsForge)
> Larry has repeatedly answered why BitKeeper isn't free software: he has to Then he should not also be saying "we'd be doing it even if there was no benefit to us." He can't have it both ways, and his attempt to do so is what earns him his bad reputation. > if he had never released BitKeeper under any license except a standard Exactly. He takes crap not only for releasing non-free software, but much worse for pretending that to do so is *helping* free software. It doesn't, and his posture that he wants to help free software while at the same time making his main offering a non-free application whose license actively discourages the production of other free software, is hypocrisy.
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