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"Sourceforge and Google code tried to cater only for open source projects, while never thinking that code hosting is the problem that needs to be solved. " Act
by DannyBee 12y ago
"Sourceforge and Google code tried to cater only for open source projects, while never thinking that code hosting is the problem that needs to be solved.
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Actually, Google didn't care at the time. We weren't catering, Google Code required you be an open source project to use it.
It literally was not trying to solve this problem, because it did not want to.
We knew commercial code hosting was a problem to be solved, we just didn't care :)
- proksoup 12y agoYeah, focus is good. Glad to see you're happy about not caring.
- adanto6840 12y agoHave to respect that. At the same time though, competition is great -- plenty of me wishes you guys had tried to compete via a paid offering, one which may have lasted longer or even have been profitable. And, as a paid offering, potentially brought in some revenue and therefore maybe also had more funding/staff/effort/polish/etc. Provide choice at the very least... And, even still, maybe Github or similar would have been better -- but I can't help but think that more competition would have resulted in a better outcome [for everyone] than a product shutdown...