Google To Shutdown Google Code, Concedes To GitHub

[justmy2cents]

Um I wonder what would happen if Google just disappeared some day, without notice?

based that i don't use anything from Google, i'd probably notice it few months later in some news

[TLE02]

Errrrr, git is fully distributed...

...so if a git hosting site goes down, or whatever it is everyone is afraid of, I loose the wiki and the issues (and on github both can be exported programmatically and thus periodically backed up).

The archive including all of its history, will be present at every contributing member. Sooo, political reasons are one thing, but it seems there is a lot of FUD in this thread about the real dangers of potential loss.

[psychoticmeow]

based that i don't use anything from Google, i'd probably notice it few months later in some news

You'd probably notice pretty quickly as Google hosts a lot of random stuff in their CDN, for example jQuery.

[Nobu]

If you're worried about losing your own code, you should probably mirror it somewhere else and locally. If you're worried about all the other random repos out there, well...I wouldn't mind if someone archived all that, but it's a big job. I doubt GitHub being open source would help alleviate that any. As far as losing the service, sure it'd suck...but that's life. It wouldn't be impossible to re-implement everything they have on GitHub, just tedious.

TBH, I wouldn't mind if Google (search) disappeared, so some other upstart could come up with a simple and comprehensive search engine (like Google used to be) and be successful. DuckDuckGo works, but not always. I'd rather not use Yahoo!, Bing?, etc.. :/

[eydee]

Um I wonder what would happen if Google just disappeared some day, without notice?

End of the world, of course.

[Micket]

Um I wonder what would happen if Google just disappeared some day, without notice?

I'd go back to altavista'ing

[dh04000]

Everyone and everything is on Github now. I wonder what happened if it just disappeared some day, without notice. It would be painful for many.

Or realizes their total monopoly and start to charge to host your projects....

[Drago]

Or realizes their total monopoly and start to charge to host your projects....

Surprise, surprise, they are charging already, but only for the private repos. There are developers behind the service that need to eat too.

[Baconmon]

...so if a git hosting site goes down, or whatever it is everyone is afraid of, I loose the wiki and the issues (and on github both can be exported programmatically and thus periodically backed up).

Learn to spell..

[Luke_Wolf]

Learn to spell..

His meaning is quite clear and his lose vs loose is among the smallest issues on this forum. Go grammar nazi elsewhere. kthx.