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There never was a free version. BitMoover Inc provided free BitKeeper licences to the Linux kernel devs. This was unpopular because of the non-FOSS nature of B
by andyjohnson0 13y ago
There never was a free version.
BitMoover Inc provided free BitKeeper licences to the Linux kernel devs. This was unpopular because of the non-FOSS nature of Bitkeeper. Andrew Tridgell [1] at OSDL became frustrated with some aspects of the software and reverse-engineered its network protocol to develop his own limited client. This caused BitMoover to revoke the licences used by OSDL, which in turn provoked Linus Torvalds (who was at OSDL) to develop the early version of Git. [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#Pricing_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#Pricing_change