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[Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:30, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Thanks to those who've spoken up on our behalf. For what it's worth, we
> > have 5 or 6 boxes in the UK running SMGL now, and we're very happy with
> > it. It's worth noting that whilst the free license is provided by
> > Perforce Software Inc, the host machine is my own. From my personal point
> > of view, I'm helping folks who are helping me and that seems very much in
> > the spirit of free software.
>
>  
> It is, and you really help us a lot with providing that service. It
> should also be mentioned that at the time we started using perforce
> subversion wasn't very advanced yet and no one had heard of arch. cvs
> never did a very good job for the grimoire, so it was very nice to have
> a system like perforce that handles it much better.
> I also understand those that think we should use a Free Software version
> control system, especially now that there are working systems (arch,
> svn) that provide the features we need. I don't see us giving up
> perforce anytime soon, but providing another system in addition to it
> should happen eventually.

And I understand that completely.  Thanks Arwed.