BitKeeper could have been big. It could have been used by almost all open-source projects that have migrated from CVS. It could have been the industry standard. It could have had the best developers and code from all of the other open-source version control systems. It could have sprang a prosperous community of companies and consultants. It could have been GPLed, while still not hurting the profitability of BitMover, BitKeeper’s parent company. It could have received dozens of patches to the source code, weekly, some of them of very high quality.
Link: better-scm.berlios.de/bk
