The Register has coverage of the release of a compatability client for BitKeeper by Canberra Free Software supremo Andrew “tridge” Tridgell.
You can follow the path of this battle from here.
If you don’t understand why any of this matters I recommend you read the short story The Road to Tycho. I’m happy to lend my own copy of Free Software, Free Society: to anyone who’s interested.
The fight for the future is being fought (perhaps unsurprisingly) amongst the geeks. And big guns are being fired by the good guys from Canberra this week.