Re: Announcement: Git Ltd

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

Great news! Now that it is propietary you can rename Git to its true name.

On undefined, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear Git list,
>
>  after having talked for so long about a company selling and supporting
>  Git, I finally broke down, sat down with the lawyers, and set up the
>  company Git Ltd, based in UK.
>
>  The purpose is to market, sell and support Git for as many customers as we
>  can get.  As a first step, we will sell Git in shrink-wrap boxes starting
>  tomorrow.
>
>  Of course, this means that all of Git's source code will be closed,
>  because we have to sustain our business model _somehow_.  Sorry to all of
>  you guys who do not agree with that.
>
>  Just to make sure that the Open Source community is okay with this, I
>  contacted Richard Stallman, and this is what he told me:
>
>         If you really have a company marketing Git, that is cool, and I
>         fully understand that the only option to keep this a viable
>         business is to go closed source.  It would also be best to move
>         the headquarters to Pyongyang.
>
>  Graced by those words, Sir Howard Stringer has kindly agreed to take the
>  position of the chair of the board, and Courtenay Valenti will be our CEO.
>
>  As a consequence, there will be slight changes to Git: for one, the
>  database format will change so that we can protect our valuable
>  Intellectual Property, and all the exporters will stop to work.
>
>  This is a great day for source code management, and I hope you all will
>  enjoy it.
>
>  Johannes "Dscho" Schindelin
>  Chief Fool Officer
>  Git Ltd
>  UK
>
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