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Wow. Your sense of entitlement is astounding. Google's taking away a minor feature of a completely free "product", and your response is to compare them to bur

Wow. Your sense of entitlement is astounding. Google's taking away a minor feature of a completely free "product", and your response is to compare them to bureaucrats in the USSR? Feel free to use something else.

guard-of-terra 13y ago
I don't use many Google product but yeah, I do feel entitled to mock them for Politburo-style decision process and rhetoric. I sit with a bag of popcorn watching them ruining their image.
- skore 13y ago
  You may not be wrong, but the contrast you draw is still unnecessary and annoying.
motters 13y ago
Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. The average user is very unlikely to want to compile from source.
- jlarocco 13y ago
  Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools. Download links belong on the project web page.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools. Google Code has a number of features -- not just downloads, but also wiki, etc. -- that, while not intended to replace a user-centric site separate from the developer site Google Code is intended to provide, in practice facilitate projects using it that way.
  - anonyfuss 13y ago
    People do publish open-source developer tools -- for developers. They even publish binaries for those developers.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. While it has a set of features which may have made it usable for this use, I don't think Google Code was ever really intended to provide user facing web sites for open source projects, it was designed to provide developer facing project sites.

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Wow. Your sense of entitlement is astounding. Google's taking away a minor feature of a completely free "product", and your response is to compare them to bur

by jlarocco 13y ago

guard-of-terra 13y ago
I don't use many Google product but yeah, I do feel entitled to mock them for Politburo-style decision process and rhetoric. I sit with a bag of popcorn watching them ruining their image.
- skore 13y ago
  You may not be wrong, but the contrast you draw is still unnecessary and annoying.
motters 13y ago
Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. The average user is very unlikely to want to compile from source.
- jlarocco 13y ago
  Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools. Download links belong on the project web page.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools. Google Code has a number of features -- not just downloads, but also wiki, etc. -- that, while not intended to replace a user-centric site separate from the developer site Google Code is intended to provide, in practice facilitate projects using it that way.
  - anonyfuss 13y ago
    People do publish open-source developer tools -- for developers. They even publish binaries for those developers.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Downloads are hardly a minor feature. Having a downloadable package makes it significantly easier for users to try open source software. While it has a set of features which may have made it usable for this use, I don't think Google Code was ever really intended to provide user facing web sites for open source projects, it was designed to provide developer facing project sites.