Hi Oded!
I love it that people decide the victim is the one responsible. Let me
explain some things:
1. I was offered to use BitKeeper and bkbits.net at terms I could accept
(i.e: I sent the patchsets to openlogging.org, don't see the source (even
though the site says otherwise), etc.). I happily used it for the while.
Then the terms of BitKeeper were changed (without consulting me) to such
that I cannot accept. From out of no where what I had to put in the
repositories could no longer be proprietary. I could not accept this both
ideologically and practically (I did put some copyrighted board layouts
in my repository for safe keeping), so I voiced my opinion against it.
I can write whatever I want in my Advogato diary. Granted, the post to
bitkeeper-users was off-topic, and may have been trollish. I did not know
it was off-topic at the time. Furthermore, I believed I did Larry a favour
by opening the bitkeeper-license mailing list.
2. I started the "Better SCM" initiative after I discovered how flame-bait
and irrational Larry McVoy is. (if you want I can send you a very
insulting letter he sent me). I am trying to free BK or outcompete it
(preferably the first option). And I now decided that I am pro BK not
against it, even though I would not recommend anyone to use it until Larry
loses most of his attitude. (which IMHO will only happen once he GPLs
BitKeeper).
3. Removing the data without my explicit permission is something I
consider a malicious misplacement of information. The data was _mine_
intellectual property. Luckily, it was not lost, but it may have had I
been less careful.
You be the judge if Larry was the victim here. Granted, I was not the most
righteous man. But your free user is a 100% customer. His data is sacred.
I will not use bkbits.net again, and will go on with the "Better SCM"
movement, which will mention BitKeeper, but will specifically mention
Mr. McVoy as its greatest flaw.
Note that there isn't a single person on Earth who is more pro-business
and pro-free competition than I am. But Larry, while being an honest
entrepreneur, is so ridden with irrationality, that I am completely
appaled by him. I even like the Microsoft people better than I do him,
because at least they don't pose themselves as proponents of freedom in
software, while obviously being the opposite.
If you think I'm alone here, you should read the Linux Kernel Mailing
List. At least half of its members would agree with everything I say here.
Right now I'm learning Aegis, hoping it will be half as decent as
BitKeeper is, and am impressed by the positive responces I received from
its user community and its project manager, Peter Miller.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
There is no IGLU Cabal! The entire "Cabal Protocols" were managed using
BitKeeper. You deduce what happened next.
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