Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

From: Florian Weimer (Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:42:01 EST


Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net> writes:

> I'd really like everyone that's bitching about BK to shut the hell up and
> go work on some scripts to allow a maintainer to easily manage a
> BK<->$OTHER_SCM gateway.

How do you know that BitMover isn't trying to patent aspects of
BitKeeper which prevents you from writing such gateways?

They're already aiming at a patent for some of there merging
algorithms, IIRC.

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