2015-12-17 17:08 GMT-03:00 Nicolas Anquetil <nicolas.anquetil@inria.fr>:
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> On 17/12/2015 20:46, Peter Uhn��k wrote:
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>>> Ah, that's interesting.�� So my concern is whether github is a safe
>>> long-term bet.�� Specifically what is there to prevent some third party from
>>> buying github, or of github going public and the board taking the decision,
>>> or github on its own, deciding to charge for hosting, keeping the data
>>> hostage to extract payment?�� What safeguards are in place to prevent this?
>>> I'm not interested in "this will never happen" arguments.�� I'm interested
>>> in hard data please.
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>> GitHub explicitly reserves the right to shut down without notice,
>> however considering they have ~10M users and ~30M repositories
>> (ranging from small one-person projects, over programming languages,
>> to governmental programs), do you really think it is a real scenario?
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> well, googlecode closed didn't it?
> and it was not a small affair either
Google code was really small compared with Github.
GitHub is monumental. It's to source management what Gmail is to email.
> you never know what might happen in the future (trust a divorced man)
You get half the code? (the part that needs refactoring probably)