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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
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    • 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 :(