Re: Re: live cd
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:21:06PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> And as Richard said, Linux itself is not essential anymore. It is good, but
> not essential. So if they choose the non-free way, too bad; but we have a
> bunch other free kernels.
Just because some developers use bitkeeper doesn't make Linux non-free.
Just as RMS said that Linux is not essential anymore, the same is true
for Linus' own tree. If you don't like Bitkeeper, don't pulll from it,
use another tree. There are a couple around, one of them might be pure,
dunno.
(I've never used Bitkeeper, I don't like non-free software and I despise
thier license making it impossible to work on alternative RCSes while
using Bitkeeper)
> > > Other examples are Emacs vs Xemacs, gcc vs. egcs etc. I don't have a
>
> egcs is dead.
I got merged upstream, AFAIK.
Michael
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