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I recently participated in a focus group which was discussing git, github, and other git-ish things. To my eyes, it seemed like most of the other participants w
by jghn 10y ago
I recently participated in a focus group which was discussing git, github, and other git-ish things. To my eyes, it seemed like most of the other participants were unclear on what the difference between git and github actually was as answers about the two were often interchanged.
- saurik 10y agoIn a more perfect world I would have wanted to see GitHub be stopped at the time of release due to trademark concerns, as they clearly did this knowing it would creat this kind of confusion; it devalues git itself and their business model relies on that.
- ugexe 10y agoThat's quite an extraordinary claim. Do you have any actual evidence to support it?
- saurik 10y agoTo support which claim? That they knew naming their product "GitHub" would lead to this kind of confusion? The opposite of that is the extraordinary claim: it is painfully obvious that if you take someone else's product and name yours "ThatProductHub" you will cause semantic confusion over whether your product is directly affiliated with the other product. I am not even sure what evidence could be provided to refute that claim other than a record of extremely low IQ scores :(. People do this because they want to ride on the coat tails of the other brand, whether they want to admit it or not.
- oldmanjay 10y agoTo be fair, I'll point out that you are giving no consideration to the fact that git's popularity is due in part to GitHub's massive success and that the relationship is clearly mutually beneficial.