> So, why can't we rebrand fossil as Blockchain-VCS or
something and move on toward world domination?
Because Fossil-- like Git-- doesn't solve, attempt to solve, or even advertise itself as solving the problem of decentralized consensus.
All existing blockchain technologies at least claim to be a solution to the problem of decentralized consensus.
Therefore Dr. Richard Hipp is only "technically" right in the ways that do not matter, in the same way that I'm "technically" doing functional programming any time I write a javascript function.
Because Fossil-- like Git-- doesn't solve, attempt to solve, or even advertise itself as solving the problem of decentralized consensus.
All existing blockchain technologies at least claim to be a solution to the problem of decentralized consensus.
Therefore Dr. Richard Hipp is only "technically" right in the ways that do not matter, in the same way that I'm "technically" doing functional programming any time I write a javascript function.
I assume he knows this and is being satirical.