On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:00:27PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:30:19PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
Having to install non-free software to get the latest piece of your software is limiting you if you want to use that software. But at that time my default OS will probably be GNU/Hurd.
You still won't have to use non-free software in order to get the latest piece of software, the kernel's patches are just diff output. (Or so I think.)
And what if Linus likes BK and just doesn't release prepatches anymore and just refers to the BK repository?
Going against linux people for using BK is like going against all free software developers that use source forge, or use vi, or use mozilla, or do cross development to non free OS. It's just irracional...
I go against all free software developers wanting to use sourceforgetit already, saying that savannah is really a better option. According to my knowledge vi (at least some implementations) and mozilla are free.
Free software developers shouldn't use non-free software and promote free software IMHO.
The Linux Kernel is still Free Software, has always been and I can se no reason for not staying that way just because some of the developers started using BK...
My biggest reasons for not staying with Linux are technical.
Jeroen Dekkers