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		there on June 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub for Mac github should do some os fingerprinting of tcp connections to its servers and they'd be able to tell fairly accurately what most of their customers use.

eli on June 22, 2011 [–]

That would be very cool.

But I personally think the value in a Windows client would be in bringing new people to github more than satisfying existing users.

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