BitKeeper's open source release

BitKeeper, the inspiration behindGit and Mercurial, has been released under the Apache 2.0 License.Larry McVoy is answeringquestions on Hacker News, posting as 'luckydude'. In one comment hesays:"Git/Github has all the market share. Trying to compete with thatjust proved to be too hard. So rather than wait until we were about to turnout the lights, we decided to open source it while we still had money inthe bank and see what happens. We've got about 2 years of money and we'retrying to build up some additional stuff that we can charge for. We're alsoopen to being doing work for pay to add whatever it is that some companywants to BK, that's more or less what we've been doing for the last 18years. Will it work? No idea. We have a couple of years to find out. Ifnothing pans out, open sourcing it seemed like a better answer than sellingit off." (Thanks to Josh Triplett)