"The old regime “makes it very hard to start radical new branches because you generally need to convince the people involved in the status quo up-front about th

"The old regime “makes it very hard to start radical new branches because you generally need to convince the people involved in the status quo up-front about their need to support that radical branch,” Torvalds says. “In contrast, Git makes it easy to just ‘do it’ without asking for permission, and then come back later and show the end result off — telling people ‘look what I did, and I have the numbers to show that my approach is much better.’”" Substitute "business" for branch and "startup" for git. Startups are git branching for the economy.