Happy ending? Or a good riddence? I may not have been as blunt in my post-mortem of the falling out ... Ok, I probably would have if I had your ear in a pub and maybe gone a few steps more depending on the hour, but nonetheless, I couldn't have said it better than Richard on how the break with BitKeeper is a Good Thing for Linux, and a Good Thing for free software in general.

We should not forget the lesson we have learned from it: Non-free programs are dangerous to you and to your community. Don't let them get a place in your life.
[ via BitKeeper bon-voyage is a happy ending ]

Hear, hear. And further to that notion, I'll risk of munged paraphrase of what John Cage said about pianos:

Proprietary software is like money; any intrinsic value is only a misperception by those who own it.