I’d add another reason to that: we’re using Git because BitKeeper wasn’t free (as in beer) at the time for general purpose use. Had it been, we’d all be using BitKeeper instead.
Probably not. The free (as in speech) part of git is what made it usable for entities like google, Microsoft, github etc.
If git had been released with the same license model of BitKeepr it NEVER would have taken off.
