Jonathan Corbet  
20 Years ago: the BitKeeper license changed, making it unavailable for kernel development.

https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/

It drove home the perils of relying on proprietary software and spurred the creation of Git - a significant event, overall.
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Ambrose Andrews
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@corbet and Andrew Tridgell presented an entertaining talk about getting metadata from bitkeeper at linux.conf.au

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