BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
News Tridge could have done something constructive: he could have written the best damn SCM [source control management application] on the planet, and believed that open source generates better things, and competed against BitKeeper that way," says...
[April 20, 2005, 17:40]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback 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*. Second, Mr Tridgell has never actually used...
[April 21, 2005, 13:53]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Tridge did not try to clone bitkeeper. He tried to come up with a way to access data stored inside of bitkeeper without having to buy bitkeeper (with actual cash or by submitting to unreasonable license agreements).
[April 21, 2005, 16:06]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback It would be impossible for Andrew Tridgell to violate anyone's end of the bargain considering that he never possessed or even used bitkeeper. This article would be far more insightful if the author actually attempted to get the facts rather then...
[April 21, 2005, 15:35]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Andrew Tridgell's point of view is stated clearly in the first paragraph of the 2nd page: "He claims he did not use BitKeeper when developing his tool and was therefore not subject to the conditions in its licence.
[April 21, 2005, 15:20]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback For the impatient, or just in case the above URL gets swallowed by the form parser, the short summary is: telnet to the bitkeeper host on port 5000 type "help" read the resulting instructions The register has an article on just how much "reverse...
[April 21, 2005, 14:36]
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...
[April 21, 2005, 18:10]
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.
[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.
[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...
[April 21, 2005, 15:51]
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.
[April 21, 2005, 14:49]
Attacker attempts to plant Trojan in Linux
News Security features of the source-code repository, known as BitKeeper, detected the illicit change within 24 hours, and the public database was shut down, a key developer said on Thursday. The changes, which would have introduced a security flaw to...
[November 7, 2003, 7:39]
Torvalds automates Linux tweaks
News Now Torvalds has taken measures to automate the process using BitMover's BitKeeper software. Changing over to the BitKeeper system "has definitely made me slower," Torvalds said last week in a posting to the Linux kernel mailing list, but "some of...
[February 13, 2002, 11:39]
Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux'
News Morton commented on the ongoing war of words between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tridgell over the recent loss of a licence to use BitKeeper to maintain the Linux kernel source tree, saying he had always had reservations over the use of a...
[April 22, 2005, 10:15]
Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
News In February, he switched the management process for the vast repository of Linux code from a free-wheeling model to the more formal BitKeeper software. Torvalds said he picked BitKeeper because it doesn't rely on a single, central repository.
[October 28, 2002, 9:01]
Torvalds unveils Git
News Torvalds stopped using a management system called BitKeeper earlier this month, reverting to an older, slower technique of simply emailing updates among the hundreds of programmers who contribute to the project.
[April 21, 2005, 9:15]
Samba leader hired by Novell
News Torvalds himself works for the Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium that earlier this year hired Allison's Samba collaborator, Andrew Tridgell, who recently caused uproar with his work on a source control system designed to...
[April 28, 2005, 9:30]
Weekly security round-up
News Over on the open source front, according to a Forbes report, Larry McVoy, chief executive of BitMover - who made waves in the open source world in April over his firm's BitKeeper software - and long-time open source ally of Linus Torvalds, has...
[May 31, 2005, 15:50]
SCO wants another $2bn from IBM
News In fact, the source control system is out there in the public, and it identifies the source and the reason for patches," mentioning the BitKeeper repository he's used for the past two years to keep track of code in the heart, or kernel, of Linux.
[June 17, 2003, 15:40]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
Blog Comment Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.and other synchronizers (Intellisync...
[November 8, 2007, 17:12]
