[HN Gopher] Mercurial is simply too good (2020)
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       Mercurial is simply too good (2020)
        
       Author : interroboink
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-07-15 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | n4r9 wrote:
       | > This is precisely the problem. The tool actually solved the
       | problems you needed. So there just simply was no real reason why
       | you would need to spend money on a web host or forge for
       | mercurial.
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       | I'm not sure I follow the argument here. The tool removes the
       | need to spend money. So people didn't use it because they needed
       | to spend money?
        
         | addicted wrote:
         | The idea is that because you could simply use open source
         | mercurial to achieve whatever you needed, a company couldn't
         | build services around it and make money off of it, so there
         | were no dollars around to promote it either and pay sales
         | people to sell it to enterprises or sponsor GitHub conferences
         | and hackathons, etc.
        
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