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schlupa on Aug 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: New in Git: switch and restore

Probably not. The free (as in speech) part of git is what made it usable for entities like google, Microsoft, github etc. If git had been released with the same license model of BitKeepr it NEVER would have taken off.

cerved on Aug 2, 2021 [–]

perhaps they were referring to the fact the kernel used to run bitkeeper as VCS but the licensing prohibited development

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