[Fsf-friends] No More Free BitKeeper

[Praveen A]

<quote>BitKeeper was first utilized by a Linux project in December of 1999, 
when it was employed by the Linux PowerPC
<http://penguinppc.org/kernel/>project. Then in February of 2002,
Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided that
BitKeeper was "*the best tool for the job*" and started using it to manage 
the mainline kernel, an event that received much attention in the free and 
open source communities [story <http://kerneltrap.org/node/444>], and 
beyond. BitMover <http://bitmover.com/>, the company behind BitKeeper, was 
founded by its current CEO, Larry McVoy
[interview<http://kerneltrap.org/node/222>],
who originally conceived of BitKeeper as a tool to keep Linus from getting 
burnt out by the growing task of managing the Linux Kernel. Since Linus 
began using the tool three years ago, the pace of Linux kernel development 
has doubled
</quote>
Read full feature at
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4966
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