Re: Announcement: Git Ltd

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

On undefined, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] 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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