Great news! Now that it is propietary you can rename Git to its true name.
On undefined, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> 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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