Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Freitag 09 Januar 2009 00:01:18 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> A few years ago the core Mercurial and Bzr developers met in London for
> a weekend to compare notes and came to a tentative agreement that
> merging the two projects would be a good idea. This idea was very
> quickly torpedoed by Mark Shuttleworth's insistence that whatever
> project resulted would have to have copyright held by Canonical. The
> stated reason was allowing proprietary feature extensions as part of
> their Launchpad strategy.
>
> I wrote Mercurial to be Free with a capital 'F' as a reaction to the
> object lesson of Bitkeeper. So entrusting my work to an organization
> that had plans to embrace and extend it was just not going to happen.
> Canonical continues to this day to raise doubts that they actually 'get'
> Free Software (*cough* Launchpad *cough* upstreaming *cough*
> closed-source kernel drivers *cough*) was just not going to happen.
> Given the GNOME project's genesis in the dispute over the status of QT,
> if I were the GNOME project, I'd be wary of adopting a tool like Bzr
> without strong reassurances of its continued and full openness.

Why didn't I know this? 

(that question was retorical, yes, but it show a point: I never saw this 
argument in public - why?)

Best wishes, 
Arne
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