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Running on BSD and Mercurial? Wouldn't have made a lick of difference for most of us.

• oh_sigh 9y ago
  And yet, so many small and large organizations choose to use Linux and git over BSD and Mercurial, 'despite' Linus' management style.
  • jcranmer 9y ago
    If GitHub were based on Mercurial rather than git, we'd very likely see hg as the major VCS and git the lesser alternative. If FreeBSD weren't the target of a lawsuit in 1992 and 1993, it's plausible (by no means guaranteed) that it could have been the major OSS Unix distro instead of Linux. Technology choices are largely driven by network effects, and small variances in the seeds of the networks can ultimately dictate which networks win and which ones lose.
    • pessimizer 9y ago
      Github rode on the back of widespread adoption of git, not the other way around. It isn't like Bitbucket didn't exist.