I still love @vgr’s take on Torvalds’ two inventions demonstrating the two kinds of OSS:
1. Thoroughly unoriginal cloning of commercial projects
2. Highly original tools for developers
I've never used bitkeeper, but I've been told git was largely a clone.
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No implied criticism of Torvalds.
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BitKeeper's origins are in a reimplementation of SCCS, but copying isn't really something that matters when it comes to VCS of any kind, centralised or otherwise - it's good to be predictable!
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Git was created mostly because Bitmover fucked up & changed their licensing/pricing model to where it was virtually useless for its intended purpose. A clone originally, yeah, but it was a faster and - generally speaking - more functional one.
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