On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:17:00PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > So if we knew that doing this would hurt our business, which according > you is the only thing we care about, then why would we do it? The usual > response is the marketing value we get out of it. Yes, we certainly do > get some positive marketing out of this. We also get a ton of negative > marketing, you are aware of that, right? [...]
What you also get is a lot of testing coming from a real-world big project, and you seem to give a lot of importance to this: > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting to > recreate the entire BK history in a different system. The former is a > reasonable request, I suppose, but the latter is just a blatent request > for us to help debug and stress test a competing system. You are also saying: > You are saying we are an evil money grubbing corporation because we > don't want to give our technology to our competitors. Fair enough, > that's true, we don't. But that's not the point. The point is, as Nicolas said it very well: > Again, the BK value is in the efficiency and reliability it has to > handle a tree like the Linux kernel, not in the Linux kernel tree. It's > not necessary for you to give away that value in order to provide the > simple information needed to reconstruct the Linux tree structure as > people are asking. And the whole discussion happens because you disagree on this one. I'm fed up now so I'll stop here. Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/