On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:01:00PM +0100, M E Leypold @ labnet wrote:
Jeroen Dekkers writes:
And what if Linus likes BK and just doesn't release prepatches anymore and just refers to the BK repository?
If this ever happens and if it becomes a real problem for more than 1 competent developer, the Linux development will fork. As it always happened with *real* free software.
Linux development is already forked like hell. I don't see a reason why you have to fork free software development.
I go against all free software developers wanting to use sourceforgetit already, saying that savannah is really a better
Certainly. But you can't force people, only convince them. Your not-so-diplomatic approach isn't working too well presently, since it isn't enough to be RIGHT. You're talking to people who insist on their freedom, remember? :-)
I think my approach pretty well worked. I'm subscribed to the mailinglist of two projects who wanted to create a sourceforge project and they are now on savannah.
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.
Would have been better to give a non-dogmatic reasoning for that. I just tried, hope that is understandable.
Why they should promote free software? Because everybody should have freedom 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.
And it's also badd to change arguments midflight.
Where do I change arguments?
Jeroen Dekkers