{"thread":{"id":"48194","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git developers contacted by an advanced alien species","startedAt":"2018-04-01T17:40:56Z","lastAt":"2018-04-01T17:40:56Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christian Couder"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"343558","messageId":"CAP8UFD0WZ07EVER_HupcFLw4w-4H2hb2cp8wTaj2i9jOc_+pTA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"48194","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git developers contacted by an advanced alien species","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"christian.couder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2018-04-01T17:40:50Z","receivedAt":"2018-04-01T17:40:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"Members of an Alien species that have a far superior technology have\nrecently privately contacted some Git developers. They said that they\nare amazed by Git technology and mostly wanted to thank us all for our\nhard work on Git, as they are surely going to use it due to its free\nsoftware nature.\n\nAt the same time they expressed that they are a bit appalled by the\nstate of our free software operating systems like Linux, though they\ntold us Windows might have been used by them if it was not proprietary\nand especially if it was faster at running the awesome Git test suite.\n\nThe Git developers are all the more amazed by the fact that Dscho, the\nGit for Windows maintainer, had written just a few days before this\ncontact (https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803301415240.5026@qfpub.tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/):\n\n\"An alien digging up ancient Earth history in the far future might be\ntempted to assume that Git was developed to develop Linux which was\ndeveloped to develop Git, and then ask herself why humans bothered at all.\"\n"}]}