Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2005 05:39 AM
You're overlooking the detriment caused to free software development by NOT having BitKeeper. Linus chose to use it exactly because he could make Linux better with it than he could with an alternative. If Linus wasn't more productive with BitKeeper, he wouldn't have wanted to use it in the first place.
RMS would have Linus not use BitKeeper at all, because it is nonfree. This is absolutely equivalent to wanting Linux to develop slower, since Linus would not be as productive. Is that really what you want Richard, a worse kernel? Because that's the result of the actions you've advocated.
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Re:Dilemma -- is RMS right?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2005 05:39 AMRMS would have Linus not use BitKeeper at all, because it is nonfree. This is absolutely equivalent to wanting Linux to develop slower, since Linus would not be as productive. Is that really what you want Richard, a worse kernel? Because that's the result of the actions you've advocated.
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