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by tweetle_beetle 1899 days ago
Open source development is only a full time paid job for a small number of people, for everyone else it is largely driven by passion. In principal, I'm not sure anyone should tell anyone else what they are allowed to do with their free time.

But if you had taken time to read the first sentence on the link, you would see that there is in fact a key difference:

> Kallithea [...] is [...] source code management system that supports two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git

This is something that alternatives do not do [1] [2] [3] [4]. There are likely further differences if you read the documentation at https://kallithea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/readme.html

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/458 [2] https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/125 [3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/-/issues/261 [4] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/roadmap.html