Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement ofBitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:54:12 EST


Colin Walters wrote:
> You apparently missed the fact that the the petition was not against the
> *use* of proprietary software at all. In fact, we explicitly mentioned
> that everyone is free to make that choice individually. What the
> petition is against is the *advocacy* of the proprietary BitKeeper
> software by the kernel maintainers.

How do they have any business telling me what to advocate?

That doesn't sound like free speech nor free thought to me.

        Jeff

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