Mntsnow
04-18-2005, 7:48 AM
With Andrew Tridgell silent, apparently on legal advice, open source community leader Bruce Perens has stepped up to defend the work Tridgell did reverse engineering the protocols used by Bitkeeper. Bitkeeper is the closed source proprietary source code management tool that until last week, Linus Torvalds used to manage Linux kernel source code.
Torvalds has responded to the controversy by blaming Tridgell, and made two extraordinarily intemperate attacks on him online, the second accusing him of willful destruction.
Perens told us that Torvalds needs to "cool it."
"There are times when Linus Torvalds can be a real idiot, and this is one of these times," said Perens.
He pointed out that the closed source tool was foisted on kernel developers despite the consensus that it was inappropriate for a GPL project. Many declined to use it regardless of the gateways McVoy created, says Perens. So the criticism is "very severely unfair" to Tridgell, he says Read more at the Register (http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/15/perens_on_torvalds/)
Torvalds has responded to the controversy by blaming Tridgell, and made two extraordinarily intemperate attacks on him online, the second accusing him of willful destruction.
Perens told us that Torvalds needs to "cool it."
"There are times when Linus Torvalds can be a real idiot, and this is one of these times," said Perens.
He pointed out that the closed source tool was foisted on kernel developers despite the consensus that it was inappropriate for a GPL project. Many declined to use it regardless of the gateways McVoy created, says Perens. So the criticism is "very severely unfair" to Tridgell, he says Read more at the Register (http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/15/perens_on_torvalds/)