BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback First, Linus' response to Tridge's actions was uncalled for and over the top. He accused Tridge of "tearing down" Larry's work, which it has been established was NOTHING of the kind. This was obviously an intemperate comment on Linus's part due to...
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 18:10]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback I struggle to find an accurate description of the extent to which this article misrepresents the facts in this situation. I will therefore fall back to a phrase local to my part of the world - damn lies.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 16:06]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Many people only read the first page, or even the first paragraph or two of an article, and this article gives a very anti-Tridge slant from the beginning. Comments supporting what he did don't appear until page two.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 16:05]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback ".has split the open source community down the middle. You use this word "middle". I do not think it means what you think it means.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 15:59]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Ingrid, In response to your post: Regarding your 2nd comment, I did not state that Andrew Tridgell hasn't kept up his end of the bargain. Tridgell is the one doing things McVoy didn’t like and unless you are implying the ridiculous, which “the...
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 15:51]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback This article would be far more insightful if the author actually attempted to get the facts rather then the hype generated around this. It would be impossible for Andrew Tridgell to violate anyone's end of the bargain considering that he never...
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 15:35]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Thanks for your comments, Karl. I have updated the article to take into account your first comment. Regarding your 2nd comment, I did not state that Andrew Tridgell hasn't kept up his end of the bargain.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 15:20]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Lies and misdirection from ZDNet? Why stop now. The open source community was begged to use the tool. Only a small percentage used it, and only a small percentage agreed to not reverse engineer it.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 14:49]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback The register has an article on just how much "reverse engineering" was involved: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/tridgell_bitkeeper_howto/ For the impatient, or just in case the above URL gets swallowed by the form parser, the short summary...
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 14:36]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Actually, what the article writes is not true. First of all, the free BitKeeper license does not state that you cannot use BitKeeper (BK) to help develop a competing product; it states that you cannot help develop a competing product *at all*.
About: BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
[April 21, 2005, 13:53]
Desktop Linux for small business
Talkback The thing that keeps me away from employing Linx is all the infighting and Microsoft bashing that goes on all the time. Linux users are largely miscreants. I need a computer, not a source of grumbling, eletism and controversy.
About: Desktop Linux for small business
[November 26, 2005, 16:40]
Galileo, Galileo
Blog The EU's answer to GPS seems to be floundering a little due to those pesky and perennial factors of funding and infighting. The EU doesn't seem terribly confident that things will get sorted out in time, and the system will certainly be years late...
[May 10, 2007, 10:34 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Support for Bletchley
Talkback Let's hope there's not going to be the infighting that you suggest, 61320. I think it's really great to see you guys getting behind Bletchley Park, particularly refreshing seeing the sarcasm of some of the (US-originating) comments towards our...
About: Bletchley Park faces bleak future
[May 20, 2008, 9:17 by RichardThurston]
RE: Patching things up
Blog Comment I predict the bad guys popping up as trusted volunteers followed by an awful lot of flame wars and messy infighting. Hi JW, My biggest problem with a trusted authority is that to be of any use they must check software for malicious and spyware.
[September 28, 2008, 11:54 by Adrian Mars]
Double up on databases
Blog Don’t get me wrong - I’m not deliberately suggesting that there is infighting within the Eclipse community (evidence of which on the Internet only seems have to have surfaced in blogs such as this one)… but it must be tough at times for all these...
[January 28, 2008, 10:55 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oddly, nobody seems too keen to talk about this: there are dark hints of projects being kidnapped and divisional infighting, and a steady scent of internecine politics. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record.
[July 4, 1998, 8:42 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
