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Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

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We had a big go-round on the name a while back:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138

We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html

We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.

Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!

I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)

Let's hope she does some day.

Just for example — to steal shamelessly from Reddit — you could call this product "Twitter gold".

"Give Twitter gold to this user".

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