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Google Announces Open Source Repository

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the competing dept.

NewsForge (also owned by OSTG) has word of Google's newest product: an open-source project repository. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier sat down for a talk with Greg Stein and Chris DiBona, who say that the product is very similar to sites like SourceForge but is not intended to compete with them. From the article: "Instead, Stein says that the goal is to see what Google can do with the Google infrastructure, to provide an alternative for open source projects. DiBona says that it's a 'direct result of Greg concentrating on what open source projects need. Most bugtrackers are informed by what corporations' and large projects need, whereas Google's offering is just about what open source developers need. Stein says that Google's hosting has a 'brand new look' at issue tracking that may be of interest to open source projects, and says 'nobody else out there is doing anything close to it.'"

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  1. No Public Domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A quick look through the licenses mentioned in the TFA shows that public domain is missing.

    Although its not a license per se, it might be nice to add that option for those projects that choose to go that route.

    1. Re:No Public Domain by rollercoaster375 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Also missing is the option for Dual Licensing of your application. GPL and MIT (with a fee), for example.

  2. I was going to say that without ads it was nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...before I noticed what bullshit they slipped in.

    I was looking around http://code.google.com/ when I took a look at the "Featured Projects". Pirate Island is a blatent advertisement for Dead Man's Chest, though it looks like a legit project until you go to the site. Google also did some bullshit like that with the Davinci Code too. I don't care if they want to advertise it. I have a big problem when they try to trick their users into thinking it's useful content.

  3. Read the FAQ by dmoore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The FAQ for Google's hosting service is here:
    http://code.google.com/hosting/faq.html

  4. Microsoft monopoly a good thing? by QuantumFTL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder - if Microsoft was not such a big player, but rather there were several somewhat smaller players, like Microsoft, Apple, and IBM, would there be any large companies that invest in open source as IBM does now? I mean, it seems like one of the big reasons that IBM and Google invest in FOSS is because it is a good way to strike indirectly - and often directly - at Microsoft. If there was no "king of the hill," would we still see this level of investment?

    1. Re:Microsoft monopoly a good thing? by oneandoneis2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      IBM don't invest in Linux out of philanthropy, and they don't do it to "get at" Microsoft. They invest because Linux is a huge cash-cow, IBM knows how to milk it, and thus it makes them large amounts of cash. And that's what matters to a big company. They make money, we get something like a billion dollars a year invested in Linux, and everybody's happy.

      Except MS. But that's their problem ;o)

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      So.. it has come to this