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by jespern 5447 days ago
> 2. Bitbucket has a reputation for being a cheap knock off of GitHub for some reason.

The reason for this is very simple: We launched within months of each other, and we look very much alike (how many ways can you skin a DVCS hosting cat?) And then of course there was the whole pointing fingers/attempt to drag through the mud article, that was since removed.

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I never followed it that closely, I just remember that there was an article or two posted here that made the claim. To me both look like as straight a translation of the command line to the web UI as was possible.