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Creating both are merits, of course.

But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is sort of dead and I have to use Git every day if I want to work with others. I'd love to have a better attitude about it. So far it just looks like another thing that one because X popular guy made it or Y big company made it.

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> But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

Because it wasn't better? Git won because it's overall a superior VCS, had better support for complex workflows, was performant, and had GitHub which means teams could circumvent IT.

Git won because anyone that wanted to contribute to Linux had to use it.

That's ridiculous. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of other developers and projects out there.

That's not true at all. All you need ist a diff tool and an email address.

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