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Why GitHub won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
My Windows Vista, Ubuntu and Mac Tiger desktops, circa a stupid long time ago.What was it like to develop software almost 20 years ago and how was this an environment where Git could win over people and a GitHub could be born? However, what happened instead was that one of the Linux developers reverse engineered the protocol, breaking the licensing terms, and BitKeeper and Linus determined that the spat that followed was untenable and they mutually decided to part ways. So Linus took some of the concepts that BitKeeper opened his eyes to, threw together the simplest thing he thought would solve his problems with those principles in mind, and called the new project Git, the “ information manager from hell ”.
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