From discussion-admin@fsfeurope.org Thu Mar 7 07:56:51 2002
Is there anything we can practically do to change the bk decision? It looks like bk has raised more than enough technical problems of its own. Maybe Aegis solves some of them? Aegis also have problems marketing themselves. PDF manuals, really, in this day and age! ;_)
IMHO, its pointless persuing this - linus knows the BK guys quite well (from what it seems). And while I sympathise with people that say its isn't Free, its is free as in money, and the developers will implement any sensible ideas people suggest, and have stated several times that it is a very complex bit of software, far more complex than say the kernel. This requires a full time staff to develop it, and they are being paid to develop it by companies that require such a software - the BK people are trying to give the best of both worlds, and I personally wish them the best of luck.
But on the otherhand I realise the danger (whatif BK 'goes bad' when we are all dependant etc) but they have added clauses that it will go GPL if they go out of business, etc etc. and are trying to counter most of the usual bad points.
It helps to visit the BK web site and read first hand information before writing mail that is based on estimations....
BK will bekome GPL if openlogging.org goes offline for 90+ days.
Jörg
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