From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?=" Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Ltd Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:16:16 +0200 Message-ID: <8aa486160804010616i19b9bed3u9cb0fa39e7bd65c8@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 01 15:17:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JggMM-0000YT-9K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:17:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090AbYDANQX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:16:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753768AbYDANQW (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:16:22 -0400 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.184]:48193 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753330AbYDANQV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:16:21 -0400 Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id s4so260742gve.37 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:16:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=yz8MT037LlXY3n6MblZrEhPkL0dk7dPGLevBbk/6oXc=; b=HWzJyMDFYLTK+mQ3BpS3ODbUvFHKKx/qQYrL70nSajbo2mStSx/9IfR/WeTYd9dPg83KMDWkJ0rlF4/S4T4JhMiqoiVHI/0fre6Ws4hRCtFO0k07nY1cGRZp0hkikYIR7e1CCabHUFuwVxcI4rqOe3cKlRTmD7NzMvz7RPDvzs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tPXAKHVEETdA72mM6xtK9Y49yXkkIwK+GH03XxmKbJep9u3+sByCGbPGI5pr9s810NkOlwWtyNtZTJbNCZSouXulf6+wjWsy1eaa87WNgnlt3h9gDb2gribqB+S3Zp0GQFp8vTnSIBBpilIs7oWqCICFY0qvPYxqrJ068bP80W8= Received: by 10.150.199.21 with SMTP id w21mr4125479ybf.129.1207055776528; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.14.14 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:16:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Great news! Now that it is propietary you can rename Git to its true name. On undefined, Johannes Schindelin 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >