Re: Bitkeeper going commercial-only

Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> writes:

So this is really crappy news, I really liked BK. How is this going to affect PETSc and what are your future short-term and long-term plans?

I have to figure out what I'm doing with COW, and I was wondering how you guys were dealing with this.

They have promised us free licenses. In fact, its pretty easy for any academic, open source project to get a free license. It turns out Victor already had one for 2 years now. My guess is once all the Linux kernel assholes stop caring about BK, it will go back to being completely free. <Commence beating numbskull, ignorant kernel programmers> Matt -- "Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one" -- Sir Alec Guiness