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[Don Marti]

On 10/27/20 12:00 PM, Rick Moen wrote:

> [1] Friedman's one truly smart idea was naming his firm, the one devoted to
> running a big git repo behind a big-ass proprietary Web site, 'GitHub',
> because that confused a bunch of idiots into confusing it with git.

The company name was picked way before Nat Friedman was involved with 
the company. GitHub started in 2008, at a time when Git was already 
either adopted or in the process of getting migrated to by large 
projects including Samba and X.

Keith Packard was imho influential in helping Git break out of the 
kernel niche into other software.

   https://keithp.com/blogs/Tyrannical_SCM_selection/

   https://keithp.com/blogs/Repository_Formats_Matter/

GitHub (which started as a "bootstrapped" startup with no VC money and 
revenue from close to day 1) had the good timing to offer a version 
control system that offered some interesting advantages for developers, 
and was becoming the choice of respected project leaders, at the same 
time that the existing software project hosting sites were taking a Not 
Invented Here approach to Git and sticking to Subversion.