Great news! Now that it is propietary you can rename Git to its true name. On undefined, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
