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There were more people having problems than Tridge. I was there, and I was told in private mail by the author of BitKeeper that I did not have permission to us
by jlokier 8y ago
There were more people having problems than Tridge.
I was there, and I was told in private mail by the author of BitKeeper that I did not have permission to use it, because of my work on respository analysis software that looked like it would get too close for comfort.
That's without any reverse engineering. I never used BitKeeper, or connected to the server, or read the infamous "help" text.
It meant I couldn't participate in kernel development in the same way as most folks.
I wasn't the only one, and that's what I mean by practical problems, not just ideological.
- craigsmansion 8y agoMy apologies. I didn't want to gainsay your claim, but I've noticed I've been getting older [1] and things that happened "recently" and "should be common knowledge", are not, in fact, exactly that for everyone. I wanted to point out that it was not a very loose "pragmatic and/or ideological" argument back then, but there were very specific actions and respected actors involved. You obviously, being directly involved, are aware of the specifics, but it might be easy for a casual reader to place it in a "Ah, the Free Software people were ruining a good free thing even back then" context, whereas pretty much the opposite happened. [1] and you too, by implication, for which my apologies as well.
- jlokier 8y agoThanks for the apology, but no worries, it isn't needed :-) That's interesting. I read your comment as making out that it was _merely_ one person (Tridge) who had a problem with BitKeeper and BK didn't deserve the flak, but I read your later comment as making out that BK did deserve it.