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Jonathan Corbet

20 Years ago: the BitKeeper license changed, making it unavailable for kernel development.

https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/

It drove home the perils of relying on proprietary software and spurred the creation of Git - a significant event, overall.
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@corbet Also a great read, how BitKeeper was "reverse engineered":

https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/

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@corbet yeah, the master's tools cannot dismantle the master's house and all that. If not for git, foss collaboration would have been so, so much worse today

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@markstos
AFAIR, Torvalds wrote git precisely *because* the existing alternatives wouldn't cut it for the Linux kernel...
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@corbet and Andrew Tridgell presented an entertaining talk about getting metadata from bitkeeper at linux.conf.au

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