I'd say we would have had Mercurial, but it was apparently developed for similar reasons: > Mackall first announced Mercurial on 19 April 2005. The impetus for

I'd say we would have had Mercurial, but it was apparently developed for similar reasons: > Mackall first announced Mercurial on 19 April 2005. The impetus for this was the announcement earlier that month by Bitmover that they were withdrawing the free version of BitKeeper. [Wikipedia]