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

From: Florian Weimer (Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:44:32 EST

Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes:

> Larry McVoy writes:
>> > I'm a poor college student
>>
>> And I have two kids on their way to college. Grow up.
>
> And if you want to do Open Source development using BK, Larry's not
> even asking for your money.

Using BitKeeper might break the way security issues are currently
handled by distributors of the GNU/Linux system, due to the open
logging feature. 

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