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Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting

Posted by timothy on from the look-but-don't-slurp dept.

New submitter c0d3g33k writes "Google Project Hosting announced changes to the Download service on Wednesday, offering only 'increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure' by way of explanation. Effective immediately, existing projects that offer no downloads and all new projects will no longer be able to create downloads. Existing projects which currently have downloads will lose the ability to create new downloads by January 2014, though existing downloads will remain available 'for the foreseeable future.' Google Drive is recommended as an alternative, but this will likely have to be done manually by project maintainers since the ability to create and manage downloads won't be part of the Project Hosting tools. This is a rather baffling move, since distributing project files via download is integral to FOSS culture."

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  1. Re:in future news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    get lost, google. we do NOT need you anymore

    Actually, that is what Google is saying to us, its customer^H^H^H^H^H^H product.

    You keep saying that as if anyone cares.

    And you just keep saying it over and over and over and over and over and over again, and the situation hasn't changed.

    Then more businesses do the same thing and still, nobody cares.

    So you try being louder and find that nobody cares.

    So you try being more snide and find that nobody cares.

    So you try being more smug and find that nobody cares.

    And in all of this, you still can't seem to understand that nobody cares.

    Because NOBODY CARES.

    You can quote theory and abstractions and utopian ideals and dreamworlds where everything is free and everybody loves hosting your email for you and everybody takes part in building a search index and nobody ever abuses it and all sorts of other things that simply don't and can't exist.

    You can cry about that all day long if you feel like it.

    And you do.

    And still, nobody cares.

    Because nobody cares.

    And nobody cares.

    You may think I'm being repetitive here. You may point out that no matter how many times I try to drill this concrete, provable fact into your brain, you still won't change your ways or understand that some people really seriously don't care about this, so long as they're getting a decent service out of it.

    You may therefore snap at me and say "A HA! Nobody cares about NOBODY CARING what I have to say! Yet YOU'RE still repeating yourself over and over again! I don't care! Ha! HA HA! I'M VINDICATED!!1!!".

    And then I'd ask you how you expect anyone to care about you.

    Because nobody cares.