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Google should acquire GitHub and let the GitHubbers run Google.

by luigi 15y ago

gaving 15y ago
christ, don't even joke
ten7 15y ago
And if they did acquire GitHub, then I'm sure they'd make all private repos free and create even more of an incentive to use the service. And perhaps the GitHub FE would simply then come bundled with a Google Search Appliance?
munchor 15y ago
Oh no, please no! I really hope Google never acquires Github.
- eternalban 15y ago
  I love Github but if they sell to Google, it will be goodbye.
  - Johnyma22 15y ago
    I concur.
  - Karunamon 15y ago
    <sarcasm intensity=100%> I know! It would be horrible to have the service be free, and integrated with Google's other search and social features and therefore more visible to the world! THE HORROR!!1
    - tibix 15y ago
      people like you, forgetting the "" the html 4.00 way, are ruining the internez
    - wavephorm 15y ago
      Yeah and if they buy github maybe they can integrate social coding features using Google Plus and force hackers to code using their real names. The horror...
    - raganwald 15y ago
      In all seriousness, I’m happy for them to index my public repositories, but no, I don’t want my email program to show me “relevant” ads based on my private repositories or integrate the contents of my private repositories into their profile of mine.
      - Karunamon 15y ago
        How would one advertise based on the contents of a repository anyways? Searching for a lot of swearing in the commit messages and recommending anger management?
        protomyth 15y ago
        On a serious note, I would guess that having your commit history and cross referencing it with the issues db (seeing things you closed or breaks caused by your code) might be quite interesting to a recruiter and a source of some pretty targeted (read: expensive) advertising. [edit: not to mention company lawyers looking to sue some NDA violating employees]
        burgerbrain 15y ago
        I can think of a few ways. Perhaps you could grep for common libraries like "ffmpeg" and make a guess as to what sort of software it is. Maybe a video editor/player in the case of ffmpeg. Once you figure that out, you could show advertisements for the same sort of software.
    - gojomo 15y ago
      I wouldn't want to have to use my real name via a Google+ account in order to commit code.
      - deleted 15y ago
        [deleted]
    - WayneDB 15y ago
      site:github.com <terms> is all the integration that I need. So it's already free, it's already integrated into Google's search, if I want to be social about what I'm coding I can easily share it on G+... What problems would be solved by doing anything differently? If Google bought it and nothing changed I'd be happy!!! However, I don't think that'd be the case. Things would change and I suspect for the worse, since it's not a big cash cow like search is.
    - drx 15y ago
      Google often kills off the product when they acquire the company.
      - jrockway 15y ago
        But they steal the good features. Etherpad's functionality is now in Docs, for example.
        burgerbrain 15y ago
        I think most of githubs innovations could likely be added to google code without acquiring github. The technology isn't really what makes github special.
        josephg 15y ago
        The etherpad developers were hired to help work on wave. Google docs implemented collaborative editing independently of etherpad and the wave team.
    - Karunamon 15y ago
      I've come to the conclusion that a lot of you have an issue with sarcasm even when it's obviously marked :(
tsieling 15y ago
That's utterly chilling. They'd definitely do another snuff job and then put out a cutesy video about how they're making all this mean old complex stuff quirky and easy and fun.
ErikRogneby 15y ago
I am trying to imagine ad placement analytics based on commits and projects watched...
xpaulbettsx 15y ago
No me gusta
holman 15y ago
My favorite response was on Quora where someone asked a similar question and mentioned that "Most GitHubbers wouldn't even pass a Google interview". I certainly wouldn't. And would promptly get myself fired within the week.
- josephg 15y ago
  Only if you swear at all the interviewers Holman. (jokes :D) The biggest problem with google acquiring github is that github would be expected to integrate with google's infrastructure; which would be a monumental engineering task. I can't see that happening in any way that wouldn't hurt github somehow. The best case would be that months of github's engineering time is taken away from new features. The worst case is that github is integrated with google code somehow; which would probably result in a revolt by github's users. I think an acquisition by google would only hurt the open source community. Google likes us too much to risk that.

Google should acquire GitHub and let the GitHubbers run Google.

by luigi 15y ago

Google should acquire GitHub and let the GitHubbers run Google.

gaving 15y ago

christ, don't even joke

ten7 15y ago

And if they did acquire GitHub, then I'm sure they'd make all private repos free and create even more of an incentive to use the service. And perhaps the GitHub FE would simply then come bundled with a Google Search Appliance?

munchor 15y ago

Oh no, please no! I really hope Google never acquires Github.

eternalban 15y ago
I love Github but if they sell to Google, it will be goodbye.
- Johnyma22 15y ago
  I concur.
- Karunamon 15y ago
  <sarcasm intensity=100%> I know! It would be horrible to have the service be free, and integrated with Google's other search and social features and therefore more visible to the world! THE HORROR!!1
  - tibix 15y ago
    people like you, forgetting the "" the html 4.00 way, are ruining the internez
  - wavephorm 15y ago
    Yeah and if they buy github maybe they can integrate social coding features using Google Plus and force hackers to code using their real names. The horror...
  - raganwald 15y ago
    In all seriousness, I’m happy for them to index my public repositories, but no, I don’t want my email program to show me “relevant” ads based on my private repositories or integrate the contents of my private repositories into their profile of mine.
    - Karunamon 15y ago
      How would one advertise based on the contents of a repository anyways? Searching for a lot of swearing in the commit messages and recommending anger management?
      - protomyth 15y ago
        On a serious note, I would guess that having your commit history and cross referencing it with the issues db (seeing things you closed or breaks caused by your code) might be quite interesting to a recruiter and a source of some pretty targeted (read: expensive) advertising. [edit: not to mention company lawyers looking to sue some NDA violating employees]
      - burgerbrain 15y ago
        I can think of a few ways. Perhaps you could grep for common libraries like "ffmpeg" and make a guess as to what sort of software it is. Maybe a video editor/player in the case of ffmpeg. Once you figure that out, you could show advertisements for the same sort of software.
  - gojomo 15y ago
    I wouldn't want to have to use my real name via a Google+ account in order to commit code.
    - deleted 15y ago
      [deleted]
  - WayneDB 15y ago
    site:github.com <terms> is all the integration that I need. So it's already free, it's already integrated into Google's search, if I want to be social about what I'm coding I can easily share it on G+... What problems would be solved by doing anything differently? If Google bought it and nothing changed I'd be happy!!! However, I don't think that'd be the case. Things would change and I suspect for the worse, since it's not a big cash cow like search is.
  - drx 15y ago
    Google often kills off the product when they acquire the company.
    - jrockway 15y ago
      But they steal the good features. Etherpad's functionality is now in Docs, for example.
      - burgerbrain 15y ago
        I think most of githubs innovations could likely be added to google code without acquiring github. The technology isn't really what makes github special.
      - josephg 15y ago
        The etherpad developers were hired to help work on wave. Google docs implemented collaborative editing independently of etherpad and the wave team.
  - Karunamon 15y ago
    I've come to the conclusion that a lot of you have an issue with sarcasm even when it's obviously marked :(

tsieling 15y ago

That's utterly chilling. They'd definitely do another snuff job and then put out a cutesy video about how they're making all this mean old complex stuff quirky and easy and fun.

ErikRogneby 15y ago

I am trying to imagine ad placement analytics based on commits and projects watched...

xpaulbettsx 15y ago

No me gusta

holman 15y ago

My favorite response was on Quora where someone asked a similar question and mentioned that "Most GitHubbers wouldn't even pass a Google interview". I certainly wouldn't. And would promptly get myself fired within the week.

josephg 15y ago
Only if you swear at all the interviewers Holman. (jokes :D) The biggest problem with google acquiring github is that github would be expected to integrate with google's infrastructure; which would be a monumental engineering task. I can't see that happening in any way that wouldn't hurt github somehow. The best case would be that months of github's engineering time is taken away from new features. The worst case is that github is integrated with google code somehow; which would probably result in a revolt by github's users. I think an acquisition by google would only hurt the open source community. Google likes us too much to risk that.