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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by moeadham on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:46PM (#17209358)
I wonder what Linus Tovalds is thinking right now. If I remember correctly, he wrote Git because Perforce was forcing him to use Microsoft software licences.

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by DaveMebs on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:56PM (#17209489)
Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper (which was originally provided freely to Linux kernel developers under the agreement that they not develop a clone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cesarb on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:01PM (#17210246)
> Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper

Git was not developed as a clone of BitKeeper, it has a very different design (snapshot-based content-addressed filesystem, versus the SCCS "weave"). If anything, git was a (much faster) clone of Monotone, minus the heavy cryptography focus which made Monotone so slow.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by TimTheTinker on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:52PM (#17209434)
Git != GitHub
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