Jonathan Corbet on Nostr: 20 Years ago: the BitKeeper license changed, making it unavailable for kernel ...
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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