On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:58:59PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > In any case, you have been warned about Larry's attitude. Since he started > with BitKeeper, he pulled the public repository holding the source code > off, made the license worse, and has grown entirely grumpy and unhappy > about everything. He expects free software developers to use BitKeeper > just because it is a great product, without giving consideration to how > open-source or close to open-source it is.
He does not "expect" anything. He offers a choice, which every free software developer can choose to accept or not. > Moreover, from experience of working with him, he treats free users who > bug him with questions as a burden - as a time being lost that could have > been spent otherwise. I have read the entire site and yet failed to > understand a few things. I believe other free and commercial users would > have encountered similar problems. The site should have been updated to > reflect my input, but it did not yet. This is bullshit, Shlomi, pure and simple. He solicited the kernel developers for features and improvements in bitkeeper many times, and usually went ahead and implemented what they wanted. Maybe he treated *you* as a burden - I can certainly understand why. Every dealing I had with him was polite and curteous - on both sides. > I am now happily working with Aegis on "I, Bex!" which is one of my pre-BK > projects. The people in the mailing list are nice and just happy that I > use it. One Israeli user sat with me through a several hours IRC session, > and instructed me step by step on creating the Aegis repository and making > my first change. Aegis is more pedantic and a bit more over-killish than > BK is. But it also seems more powerful in some respects. I did not see > such attitude from Mr. McVoy, albeit some of the other BitMover employees > came close. So use Aegis and be happy, but g*d damn it, stop slandering Larry McVoy where he cannot respond! Don't you see how childish and petulant your behaviour is? > I have no intention to commit any crime. My intentions are solely focused > on advocacy and writing code. But mark my words: AFA the free software > world is concerned, Larry McVoy is bad news. You should not use BitKeeper > for your own good. As for commercial users - I can only ask them if they > are willing to do business with a person of such negative magnitude. I > personally, would not. Fine. Now, please, stop sending these diatribes to linux-il, or hackers-il, or any other mailing list where they are not appropriate. Otherwise, well, *plonk*. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sctrace strace /bin/foo http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?
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