Comment by fsckboy

>Git was built because the commercial license of BitKeeper became unworkable for the Linux kernel community.

BitKeeper was free to linux kernel developers with a "but no reverse engineering" clause, but Tridgell went exploring of his own volition because he wanted to and kinda sorta violated that, so the license was cancelled by BitKeeper.

I'm not taking sides or upset about any part of this, I just wouldn't call that "becoming unworkable for the linux kernel community"; that would be like "the fence around your yard became unworkable for me in my desire to trespass on your property so I climbed over it"

what Tridgell discovered was pretty dumb and could be considered a distinct lack of a fence, but he connected to a socket and typed "help" and it dutifully printed out a bunch of undocumented useful commands.