Bruce Perens Tells Linus Torvalds To Cool It

Eh-Wire writes "Bruce Perens has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Andrew Trigdell's attempt to 'reverse engineer' the proprietary Bitkeeper code management software of Larry McVoy and the ensuing fallout with Linus Torvalds. Not only does he tell Linus Trovalds to 'Cool it!' he also suggests, 'Larry sees conspiracies that don't exist.' Sounds like Bruce is a bit worked up about this."

Well..

[Cruithne]

Just because Larry's paranoid doesn't mean everyone isn't out to get him.

Cool.

[Adult film producer]

Perens vs Torvalds vs RMS vs Gates in death match, Perens lobs a grenade. Will Torvalds respond with a clean headshot ? I can see RMS as the Axe murdering type while Gates just cheats with g0d_m0d3 .

Re:Trovalds

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn noobs can't even spell Linux Torvalds!

Actually

[loomis]

The actual statement directed at Linus was that he's got to "cool it now," and that he'd better "watch out" because he's "gonna lose control."

Furthermore, it wasn't Perens who said this. It was actually Bobby Brown. It was also at this point that Whitney Houston told Torvalds that she "believed the children were the future," and that a reversed engineered Bitkeeper would "teach them well and let them lead the way."

Re:That's why they call it Open Sores!!

[hool5400]

Tridge verses Linus. It's like Father Christmas verses Jesus...

Re:Cool it?

[m50d]

This is just the latest in a string of problems that seem to be caused by Linus. He's not scaleable, and we have no access to his source to fix his bugs. I think it's time we replaced him with an open solution

Re:Too harsh.

[Feztaa]

I apologize in advance, but I felt like having some fun ;)

Any statement ... can be used against you ... and that's OK. Pretending otherwise is just lame ... and everyone accepts that statement at face value. ... a dickless politician ... is pretty stupid, but dickless politicians can be identified ...

Re:The Register

[Anonymous Coward]

including the grammar error, that is

And so was born..

[delire]

"Kernel in the City"

Does Linus dual boot his PB? Will Perens choose to stop frequenting the Pickled Penguin after his fall out with Larry?

Real developers, real lives; this compelling new series promises to 'take the clothes off' Kernel Development.

Actually, it's not Larry that should be paranoid

[Anonymous Coward]

As we all know, recently some major milestones were achieved in the development of the HURD. Larry is basically one of RMS' pawns to make Linus look bad to the community so everyone will switch to the HURD in the coming years. He's basically pissed because the biggest name in the OSS community is not a fanatic like he is. He figured out that Linux is doing so well because the benevolent dictator pattern actually works quite well, so the way to destroy this is to turn Linus into a malevolent dictator.

As RMS will point out to everyone by the time everybody starts getting fed up with Linus: "Linux is just a kernel, we can get another one, in fact, one is maturing nicely right now..."

what happens next at the death match

[commodoresloat]

Eric S Raymond comes into the room bitching that he wasn't invited to the death match, whips out an AK-47, and blows all of them away, all the while muttering something about "damn socialists"

Re:Did you actually read Linus' reply?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow you just invented a new branch of science - intellectual property maths.

Re:Perens hardly cool :)

[slashdot.org]

Larry McAvoy

You may have misspelled his name. I believe it's Larry McAvoid. ;-)

Re:An insightful first post!

[Troll McClure]

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We want a perens trolling mathch!!!!!!!!!

Re:Actually, it's not Larry that should be paranoi

[furry_wookie]

I say we take a copy of the BSD Kernel and GPL-it, you think of a name for it BSGPL or something cute like that

Then more people will start to contribute to it who care about their work staying free and maybe we can have a BSD kernel that has the size of community as a GPL project.

The BSD license lets us do that you know...its soo much more free than GPL yadda.

Hell, I say take a whole copy of the latest FreeBSD distro and we make it GPL and we all start working on it from now on.

Who's with me!! Lets get bsgpl.sourceforge.net going soon!

Re:Total Carp

[hazee]

You mean it's kinda fishy?

Re:Actually

[geminidomino]

You just mentioned HANSON on /.?!

-1, Deserves Stabbity Death

Re:Did you actually read Linus' reply?

[arodland]

Indeed. It goes something like this:

"The value of my Slashdot posting is $1,000,000, but because I'm such a great guy, I'll contribute it to the Slashdot community for free!"

The market never had a chance to determine what the value of my posting was. In fact, I determined that the value to me of keeping it to myself was $0 (or less) when I posted it. But I get to use whatever math I want to determine its value at ONE MILLION DOLLARS and if the context is right, anyone will accept that.

On the third hand, maybe I should have used the Euro or something. A million dollars gets you what, like a gallon of milk these days?

Re:Perens hardly cool :)

[Bruce Perens]

This reputation is historical, but I should point out that I have not walked off of a project in anger in 5 or 6 years. Sometimes you get to learn from experience. Also, being a parent has made a big difference. Once that happened, Free Software was no longer the most important thing in my life and I could look at it with more perspective.

Thanks

Bruce

How the mighty have fallen :)

[hawk]

No, I don't mean bruce.

I mean seeing a couple of pepole getting reprimanded on manners by a native New Yorker--who appears to be right!

hawk, diehard western boy