Recommendations for CVS systems

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Wed Aug 10 21:45:47 EDT 2005


aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> In article <Wf-dnZ2dnZ1OB_TWnZ2dnY7CZN-dnZ2dRVn-yp2dnZ0 at speakeasy.net>,
> Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>>
>>It also is free for personal use (up to 2 clients, 2 users) and open 
>>soruce projects can get free licenses.  Or at least it was so the last I 
>>checked.
>
> For anything mission-critical, I wouldn't want to rely on a free license.
> At least if it's Open Source and someone plays with the license, someone
> else will fork (c.f. XFree86).  Alternatively, I am sometimes willing to
> pay for good closed-source software.

To my mind, Perforce qualifes for that last sentence. It's solid
software, with excellent support, from people who really understand
both software development and the open source software movement.

   <mike
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