Free software to the rescue.

Posted Oct 10, 2002 12:07 UTC (Thu) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: Free software to the rescue. by leandro
Parent article: The BitKeeper non-compete clause

> Also I am amazed to see that, if Linus had applied to Linux the reasoning
> he uses to justify BitKeeper usage, Linux would never have seen light.
> The better tools to the task at the time Linux got started were the BSD
> Unices...

While I agree on many worries about the bitkeeper license... I think that
at the time he started (with his brand new 386) Linus didn't want to use
"the best tool for the job": he was interested in developing such a tool
(operating system) himself.

Now, with a SCM, his position is different: he is not interested in writing
one (he is still busy with his OS), so he just looks for "the best tool for
the job".

Of course, I wish we had a free SCM with all the features BitKeeper has,
and I will take a look at Aegis soon... for now, I stick with CVS, keeping
an eye on Subversion.

Ciao,
Massimiliano