BitKeeper considered harmful

[Kevin Kinsey]

Ollivier Robert wrote:

>I don't know if anyone around here is using BK or know Larry McVoy or has
>any friend/relation who does but here is yet another reason to despise him
>and avoid BK at all costs:
>
><http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/>
>
>I've always avoided BK in the past for many reasons (the license being the
>primary one) but now, I'm going into a more active opponent mode.
>Mercurial is a very interesting product, probably one of the possible BK
>killers and I've been using it for 4 months now.
>
>I'd say that even the strongest proponent of capitalism would at least
>cringe at this lame attempt to stiffle free competition.
>  
>


Hrm, perhaps.  One interesting question:  if it's commercial code, it's
proprietary, right?  And so how exactly is said developer using BK's
commercial code if it's not available to him?  If he has signed a NDA,
that's a different issue, of course.

IANAL, but that sounds a tad like libel or slander or something similar.
Perhaps pistols at 30 paces? ;-)

---KDK