Imagine if Linux Merced required a binary only compiler for windows to
build any application code, and that compiler was $5K a copy.
Thats why there is a problem. Bitkeeper btw isnt really anything like as
bad as that example. Bitkeeper is equivalent to having commercial C
compilers and free ones around (aka CVS in version control).
To me it is important I can build everything without needing commercial
tools.
Don't read this as an all negative - Larry has a very interesting license
plan, and from his description over lunch at Linux Expo some very powerful
tools. The notion of 'subscription' to software potentially gives you a
way to sell software created in an environment that has a high development
cost but without most of the strictures and mess. Its also a very old idea
that used to work well and died out.
Alan
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