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CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 10, 2010 20:46 UTC (Fri) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project by xtifr
Parent article: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Here's another explanation: if Matt Mackall starts working on Mercurial full time then he won't be contributing to the Linux kernel anymore. ;)

No, I don't think this was actually Microsoft's motive; Matt himself asked for money for this purpose.


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