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Bitkeeper CEO Larry McVoy revoked linux's license to use BK, Linus went off and wrote a replacement, and the rest is history.

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Bitkeeper CEO Larry McVoy revoked linux's license to use BK, Linus went off and wrote a replacement, and the rest is history.

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Bitkeeper CEO Larry McVoy revoked linux's license to use BK, Linus went off and wrote a replacement, and the rest is history.

It's that Tridgell reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol, and thus Larry McVoy took away Linux's permissions to use Bitkeeper.

Several things McVoy said turned out to be wrong, even though they must have sounded plausible at the time.

Thank you for demonstrating that it's possible to be a CEO of a successful, community-friendly proprietary version-control company without turning into Larry McVoy.

He also wrote a free BitKeeper client, antagonizing Larry McVoy, which is largely why we have git.

I think I originally found them via McVoy's page back in 2000, and then followed links and googled a bit.

I wonder if BitKeeper owner Larry McVoy has ever regretted not open sourcing his software?

Colle+McVoy - Minneapolis, MN Come play w/ us as a Sr.

The copyright holder of BitKeeper, Larry McVoy, had withdrawn free use of the product after he claimed that Andrew Tridgell had reverse-engineered the BitKeeper protocols.

Actually, I could much rather believe that 'git' referred to Larry McVoy, Mr.

Her works cites McVoy's and says it's OK.

I'd give Larry McVoy most credit of the three.

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As Larry McVoy put it: 'BK makes it really easy to do what Linus is doing.'" If you follow the links in that article, Larry McVoy doesn't really say what he's quoted as saying there, though he does make similar assertions.

> McVoy was adamant: "sorry, we're not in the business of helping you develop a competing product," he replied.

Even in the US, "git" means "idiot." It was my understanding Linus called Git for the same reason Mercurial is called Mercurial: as an unflattering reference to Larry McVoy, who was involved in the Linux/Bitkeeper mess.

Seltzer was a founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB and is now an Architect for Oracle Corporation.""" So, frankly, I think she probably is qualified to tell McVoy (not one of my heros) and McKusick (one of my heros) how to up their game.