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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Eric Schabell said:
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>> On Wednesday March 26 2003 02:28, you wrote:
>> Eric Schabell said:
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>> > Looks like this is about to happen in the near future, we are almost
>> back on  track! Thanks to Joost in advanced for his work and to all
>> the developers out  there that have had to suffer w/o CVS for the
>> past few months.... the pain is  almost over! ;-)
>>
>> Eric, not to nit-pick or anything, but this last paragraph makes us
>> sound as though we don't like Perforce and that we're ungrateful to
>> Tony and the Perforce company for the use of their software.  Now, I
>> agree that we should use all Free (as in speech) software for our
>> distro and that it's somewhat hypocritical of us to use non-free and I
>> prefere CVS anyways, we should be thankful that we _do_ have an
>> alternative.  If this isn't the way you meant to be perceived with
>> that message, then ignore this little rant.  ;)  However, if you did
>> mean it as above, I think you might want to apologize, or at least
>> explain why you think that way and that not all of us are of the same
>> mind.  I appreciate the help of Perforce and it is a good system which
>> we have benefited from for a while, so I don't think we should go
>> rubbing dirt in their faces.
>>
> Well, well, well!
>
> I would assume that you might realize that this is directed at the
> non-perforce users (Tony and Perforce know exactly how they feel....)
> who  absolutly refused to use Perforce and still stuck with us while
> turning in  tarballs or whatever.....  if you read closely there is no
> point where  Perforce is removed from our distro... ;-)
>
> I think Tony knows what the deal is, we all work together to supply the
> alternative that developers want to use.
>
> Let's not dwell on these sort of subjects, you all should know me better
> than  that, I never intend to hurt, damage or appear ugly to any
> fraction of our  team or supporting organizations. Let's quit on that
> note?
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That's what I thought, but wasn't sure, so I sent it to you and not the
list.  :)  I've been lurking on the LKML, and BitKeeper comes up quite a
bit (man, those guys can waste quite a bit of time on that :().  I was
just wanting to make sure that we are all koshur and not to degrade
anyone's contributions.  ;)

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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