This also shows that quality of the technology matters. Like the discussion on the business value of Amazon's "use APIs always," using git is using a superior source code technology, designed from the ground up for distributed development by a master of distributed development; good things are enabled automatically. Linus' naming and UX choices and inconsistencies aside, the tool is awesome. That's why it wins in distributed development environments - the bazaar not the cathedral and not the bespoke engineering team hidden away in the corporation.