Sounds like the Spanish civil war

Sounds like the Spanish civil war

Posted Nov 9, 2003 21:54 UTC (Sun) by lm (guest, #6402)
In reply to: Sounds like the Spanish civil war by vblum
Parent article: An attempt to backdoor the kernel

Re: could we make a business based on service

The service model has been tried before in this space. We *spend* more in a year providing free services to the open source world than has ever been made from supporting an open source management system. Ask Tom Lord how easy it is to convince people to spend money in this space, he spent the last year begging for enough money to keep his internet connection on.

Contrast that with having to pay a dozen engineers and you start to get the picture.

Re: BitKeeper limits your freedom

I really don't want to argue about this and I would like this to be my last post to this thread (and I'm off to the beach with my family and no laptop so there is a good chance :)

We are sensitive to the needs of the open source world and we do our best. BK has always made it trivial to get the data out of BK if you want to do that. If that's not enough, we built and run the BK->CVS gateway so that the zealots don't even have to touch BK. That's as much as we can do, if it doesn't make you happy, I'm sorry about that, but I can't help you.

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