Good point about teamware, though I think sun was a very unusual company, and particularly network focussed. Also, the internet itself had a decentralized desi

Good point about teamware, though I think sun was a very unusual company, and particularly network focussed. Also, the internet itself had a decentralized design (for military robustness, IIRC). Maybe making the core data structure be a merkle tree (not a separate data structure for validation) was new... at least, for version control? It seems monotone used merkle trees as an overlay https://decomposition.al/blog/2019/05/31/how-i-learned-about-merklix-trees-without-having-to-become-a-cryptocurrency-enthusiast/ https://decomposition.al/blog/2019/05/31/how-i-learned-about... I'm mainly going by larry, who told me that git's data structure wasn't from bitkeeper (but was "all his", IIRC). The significance is that this data structure can't model renames (of course, could do them as an overlay or decoration - though git doesn't)