On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:26:19PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
And what if Linus likes BK and just doesn't release prepatches anymore and just refers to the BK repository?
What? The prepatches noone used because they are so experimental? Still, I get your point, but if there will be a time when Linus wont release those patches I can hardly believe the main reason will be BK.
Probably because they aren't needed anymore. And if Linux uses BK he could decide that BK is replacing the prepatches system.
I go against all free software developers wanting to use sourceforgetit already, saying that savannah is really a better option.
And did you stopped using those programs?
I don't track where every program is developped, I just use apt-get. I have deleted my sourceforge account when they turned non-free and don't participate in any development on sourceforge.
According to my knowledge vi (at least some implementations) and mozilla are free.
So is Linux. And I'm not sure about vi, I could only find a draft of a licence that wasn't sure about being GPL compatible. Yet, my point was that Mozilla is ported to run on Windows. Should Free software developers do that? And most of those developers program on Windows (that's why Mozilla is faster and better in Win32 than any other platform). Shouldn't we just stopping using Mozilla?
We should convince them that they should use free software.
Free software developers shouldn't use non-free software and promote free software IMHO.
By developing free software they're promoting free software. By personally using some not-so-free (not free, anyway) software they don't start promoting non-free against free software.
They do. They give the impression that they can't do everything with free software and have to use non-free software. That isn't really promoting free software.
My biggest reasons for not staying with Linux are technical.
And the biggest reasons for Linux being widely used are technical, as are the biggest reasons for Hurd not being widely used nor developed upon...
Linux being widely used is a social thing, not a technical. On the technical part, the Hurd has a much better design and the source code is much cleaner.
Jeroen Dekkers