Google Launches Google Code

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 17, 2005 @07:57AM from the submission-avalanche dept.

ibjhb writes "Google is at it again and has launched Google Code. It appears to be "Google's place for Open Source software". " Can't say that I'm surprised that our old friend (and former Slashdot Author) Chris DiBona is working on this one. They have links to several open source projects, as well as to Google API information.

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Nice by M.C.+Hampster · 2005-03-17 08:02 · Score: 5, Informative

It looks like rather than try to reinvent the wheel, they are utilizing SourceForge for hosting their code. It's nice to see that they aren't suffering from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

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Sourceforge by aftk2 · 2005-03-17 08:03 · Score: 5, Informative

When I first read the article blurb, I thought it meant Google was announcing some sort of source code repository, like SourceForge. Instead, it's a listing of their various open source projects.

That's cool, certainly, but nothing terribly exciting. Isn't this stuff that's already been floating around on the Google website? Or is this a quick-and-dirty attempt to match developer.yahoo.com, which still looks to be more capable.

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1. Re:Sourceforge by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-17 08:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  coredumper: Gives you the ability to dump cores from programs when it was previously not possible.
  
  That's pretty much the opposite of the problem I usually have.
Google and 20% time by nathan+s · 2005-03-17 08:05 · Score: 5, Interesting
From the FAQ:

You may have heard about 20% time, in which Google engineers are encouraged to work on a personal project one day out of the week. Open Source interests a lot of Google developers, so we thought taking advantage of this program was a good way to prepare code for release and maintenance.

People at Google keep saying that they get ~20% time to work on personal projects. I'm curious about a couple of things here.
- Does this 20% time come out of the normal 40hr/week thing (and for that matter, do these engineers work 40/week or are they doing 100/week and get 20% time out of that)?
- Does Google or the developer own intellectual property developed out of that 20% time?
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coredumper by Thrakkerzog · 2005-03-17 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

coredumper: Gives you the ability to dump cores from programs when it was previously not possible.

Gee, I've always been pretty good at that!
Slashdot author is helping run it? by Jailbrekr · 2005-03-17 08:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, I guess we'll be seeing alot of duplicate projects posted there.

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Re:Up next by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-17 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny
Close... Up next on Slashdot!
- Apple!
- Google!
- Google!
- Apple!
- Google! (dupe)
- Anime!
- iPod/Google integration!
- Googling anime! (dupe)
- Microsoft announces minor security hole, Slashdot predicts end of the Internets!
Re:In other News! by Liselle · 2005-03-17 08:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

I remember complaining for months that /. didn't even have an icon for Google. Now I wish they'd make google.slashdot.org and get this stuff off the front page. Maybe take the place of Apache, which has had a grand total of one article in all of 2005.

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Re:uh oh by Curtman · 2005-03-17 08:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

yeah. ALL THE PROJECTS ARE ON SOURCEFORGE!

Good point. Because Sourceforge, Freshmeat, and Slashdot are all OSTG pages. This is nice to see Google taking an interest in OSTG, not competing with it.