“But what Torvalds really did say this weekend is only slightly
less bizarre. The Linux leader also encouraged a software company
to take its code under a proprietary license, his friend
alleges.“At the heart of Torvalds’ decision to refrain from using
Bitmover’s BitKeeper source code management tool last week, a day
after BitKeeper decided to drop its limited functionality free
client, is a dispute between BitKeeper developer Larry McVoy and
Samba developer Andrew ‘Tridge’ Tridgell. It has subsequently
emerged that Tridgell was working on a clean room reverse
engineered implementation of McVoy’s proprietary software, and
Torvalds has come down on the side of… his friend McVoy…”
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