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A comment on Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Discovery.

Re:Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Dis... by interrupt_ on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:56PM (#24387515)
In fact, Git was only created when Linus’ free Bitkeeper license was revoked after a Linux kernel contributor tried to reverse engineer its networking protocols

Bit-who?

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Re:Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Dis... by ashildr on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:06PM (#24387574)
So by revoking Linus‘ license bitkeeper set in motion a development that would make bitkeeper obsolete. This is funny.
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