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The one question that bothers me is confidentiality.... code is IP of the company writing it. What prevents someone on a copyright fishing expedition from gett
by dedward 16y ago
The one question that bothers me is confidentiality.... code is IP of the company writing it. What prevents someone on a copyright fishing expedition from getting some kind of court order for the hosting provider to turn over all of my company's code without even telling me? It's the same argument for all hosted services.
For open development, it's awesome... closed - I wish so many saas providers offered self-hosted solutions with a subscription so I could at least control the hardware & it's location.
- steveklabnik 16y agoYou're welcome: http://fi.github.com/ http://fi.github.com/
- dedward 16y agoRight on - thanks. (and all you other SaaS providers out there - take note!)
- steveklabnik 16y agoAs an interesting note, I'm pretty sure I remember the GitHub guys saying that this is built with JRuby. A cool way to do it...
- cemerick 16y agoExcept, their pricing starts at $2,500 per year for 10 devs. Holy shit. I'll bet they sell scads of it to companies with more money than they know what to do with, but that seems crazy to me. As wonderful as github is, it's still just source control. Here's hoping gitorious will get sanely installable at some point (i.e. `apt-get install gitorious`, not "oh my god": http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/UbuntuInstallation http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/UbuntuInstallation). I'd pay something for that.
- steveklabnik 16y agoSeems totally reasonable to me. That's not that much money for an actual business expense. If you have such Super Ultra Secrets that they Must Be Kept On Your Servers, or else The World Breaks!!!!1, then you can afford to pay good money to keep it safe. I'd argue that it's still pretty cheap. Compared to ten salaries?
- cemerick 16y agoSuper-ultra-secrets has nothing to do with it (though if you're a small shop, pointing the finger at github if/when confidential stuff flies the coop isn't going to go over well with certain clients). My code (and other assets) are important to me; if it ends up on a torrent server in china, that's bad. Github's security is better than mine, but I'm not a honeypot either. Perhaps the formal probabilities are against me; I guess I'm irrational in a few ways.
- steveklabnik 16y agoTruth. I do so much open source work that I'm not used to being in that kind of position.