Apologies

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho at gmx.net> wrote:
> What is funny, or sad, is that there is no big business based this
> concurrency. Well, not like Apple vs. Google (Android) or Office Word vs.
> WordPerfect (in its time)...

Some level of competition is healthy. But it is sad that it there not
much sharing between the projects. I would like to look in to the
reasons.

One reason, already mentioned in this thread, is that Canonical wanted
to hold the copyright, and the hg guys did not trust Canonical due to
the fact that at the time, Launchpad was not Free (Speech.) No that
this is not the case, may be the bzr and hg groups should talk again.

The other reasons would be technical. (my brain is to tired to think
about that now.)


Can anyone elaborate on the economic side of hg. I found this page:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/sponsors/ Can that really be enough?
There non free products built on HG, such as Fog Creek Kiln. Do they
contribute to financially to hg development?


Gary