On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 2015-12-17 17:08 GMT-03:00 Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anque...@inria.fr>: > > > > > > On 17/12/2015 20:46, Peter Uhnák wrote: > >>> > >>> Ah, that's interesting. So my concern is whether github is a safe > >>> long-term bet. Specifically what is there to prevent some third party > from > >>> buying github, or of github going public and the board taking the > decision, > >>> or github on its own, deciding to charge for hosting, keeping the data > >>> hostage to extract payment? What safeguards are in place to prevent > this? > >>> I'm not interested in "this will never happen" arguments. I'm > interested > >>> in hard data please. > >> > >> GitHub explicitly reserves the right to shut down without notice, > >> however considering they have ~10M users and ~30M repositories > >> (ranging from small one-person projects, over programming languages, > >> to governmental programs), do you really think it is a real scenario? > > > > well, googlecode closed didn't it? > > and it was not a small affair either > > Google code was really small compared with Github. > > GitHub is monumental. It's to source management what Gmail is to email. > > > you never know what might happen in the future (trust a divorced man) > > You get half the code? (the part that needs refactoring probably) > ROTFL _,,,^..^,,,_ thanks, Eliot
