Re: Announcement: Git Ltd

> 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
>