It is rare that adaption has anything to do with the strength of the technology involved. Usually the winners are those that are early to market, are adapted ea

It is rare that adaption has anything to do with the strength of the technology involved. Usually the winners are those that are early to market, are adapted early by industry leaders and/or have better marketing. In this case the reason is most definitely the fact that it used in Linux, easily one of the biggest open source projects ever. I would wager a guess that if Mercurial was created earlier, Git would probably never have been created, let alone be adapted for Linux.