> However, Larry conveyed his very legitimate worry that a fast, stable open source project such as Mercurial poses a threat to his business, and that he consid

> However, Larry conveyed his very legitimate worry that a fast, stable open source project such as Mercurial poses a threat to his business, and that he considered it "unacceptable" that an employee of a customer should work on a free project that he sees as competing. Something being ironic isn’t always a bad thing. Specifically this is situational irony as the thing the creator of Bitkeeper feared (open source ripping off his product) eventually became moot when he open sourced Bitkeeper.