Re: BitKeeper Cont. [was Re: My projects are gone (fwd)]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Omer Zak wrote:

>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > You are talking about taking control of another person's creation w/o
> > that persons agreement (!!) most people would call that outright theft -
>
> Ayn Rand, too.
>

I am not going to _force_ Larry to free BitKeeper. I have no intention of
doing that. I am going to give Larry no choice but to free it. This is
called outcompeting.

In any case, you have been warned about Larry's attitude. Since he started
with BitKeeper, he pulled the public repository holding the source code
off, made the license worse, and has grown entirely grumpy and unhappy
about everything. He expects free software developers to use BitKeeper
just because it is a great product, without giving consideration to how
open-source or close to open-source it is.

Moreover, from experience of working with him, he treats free users who
bug him with questions as a burden - as a time being lost that could have
been spent otherwise. I have read the entire site and yet failed to
understand a few things. I believe other free and commercial users would
have encountered similar problems. The site should have been updated to
reflect my input, but it did not yet.

I am now happily working with Aegis on "I, Bex!" which is one of my pre-BK
projects. The people in the mailing list are nice and just happy that I
use it. One Israeli user sat with me through a several hours IRC session,
and instructed me step by step on creating the Aegis repository and making
my first change. Aegis is more pedantic and a bit more over-killish than
BK is. But it also seems more powerful in some respects. I did not see
such attitude from Mr. McVoy, albeit some of the other BitMover employees
came close.

I have no intention to commit any crime. My intentions are solely focused
on advocacy and writing code. But mark my words: AFA the free software
world is concerned, Larry McVoy is bad news. You should not use BitKeeper
for your own good. As for commercial users - I can only ask them if they
are willing to do business with a person of such negative magnitude. I
personally, would not.

Best regards,

        Shlomi Fish

There is no IGLU Cabal! It was deleted after a dispute could not be
resolved as to the terms of a hosting service.

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