Google is king of abandonware , they have closed down half of their software projects, Google Code was just the tip of the iceberg . The other half is close to be abandoned or at least heavily outdated. Moreover google code was crappy anyway, its close down went unnoticed.
Github is nowhere anything like Google and its insult to even compare the two. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:26 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
