Re: openbkweb-0.0

[David Lang]

anyone who wants to can setup a bitkeeper server, set it to sync with
bkbits.net every 5 min and re-export the data (including the SCCS
formatted metadata) any way they want. Larry has even encouraged people to
do this.

what he is refusing to do is to pay the cash for the bandwith to support
this.

I'll volunteer to run such a server so that you purists don't have to get
your hands dirty by touching bitkeeper, as long as someone else is paying
the bandwidth and hosting costs (and I'm not requiring a colo facility,
someone's house with appropriate bandwidth is good enough for me. I'm
willing to cut any corners that can be cut to keep it cheap)

David Lang

 On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:05:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: Davide Libenzi <[e-mail]>
> To: Jamie Lokier <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Larry McVoy <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
>
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > But nobody seems willing to stand up and say "well, maybe if we hadn't been
> > > stealing all this music these laws might not have come into existence".
> > >
> > > I'll leave you to make the BitKeeper connection, I'm sure you are smart
> > > enough to do so.
> >
> > On this we agree.  Point well made!
> >
> > The best thing for all may be a huge whip round to pay Bitmover enough
> > for them to be _happy_ to open the protocol.
>
> IMHO, Larry does not even need to "open the protocol". He could simply
> release a tool with limited functionalities under a different license.
> Wrong ?
>
>
>
> > Anyone want to start a fund?  I offer to donate US$100 (and that's 2
> > weeks income for me ATM).
>
> You might want to pass the above text through 'sed' using s/weeks/hours/ :)
>
>
>
>
> - Davide
>
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