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Not to mention the irony that they need $17M to try and recreate/improve what Linus built in a week.


That’s not really fair. That first week prototype was proof of concept, not the Git we use today. It would easily have taken $17 million for a private team to put in equivalent work to all of the open source effort that has made Git into the tool we have today.




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