Bazaar and Mercurial are dying... Bazaar is dead, and Mercurial is near death.

Linus wrote the Linux kernel and it became the "de-facto standard" for web application stack servers (and phones, and watches, and Chroemcast and all sort of `Internet things`)

Linus wrote git and it became the "de-facto standard" for version control.

If a world had 23 more Linuses, we would have full control over our SaaS and "Clouds" and not locked-in as we are at the moment.

But we have only one like him.