Large companies don’t innovate anymore, they acquire and Google’s sourceforge offering is… let’s call it underwhelming. If they tried to compete with Github and threw money into Gitlab, what do you think they’d do?
Buy it, give it a face-lift, add chat and then kill it, all within 2 years.
They’d do what they are doing to android. Make it as unusable as possible without their proprietary crap.
Google already tried doing code hosting once. It didn’t work out.
Which they could have done a much better job with.
It was basically just hosted SVN if I remember right, and they never added git support when it became the de facto version control system.
Yeah, that’s why it would be better for them to buy an existing solution. Google code looked bad, IIRC had some forced integration with google forums (or whatever they’re called), and forced a google login. It didn’t have a CI either. Gitlab has that and more.
I don’t trust Google or Microsoft for privacy and such stuff. But Microsoft does not give up as fast as Google.
Google is an advertising company. Something like 80% of their revenue comes from selling ads.
How would spending money on Gitlab support their primary business.
Google would buy it, pet it for 2 years and then take it out back and old-yeller it.
But not until after Google has used it to get every bit of personal data it has to get more dirt on you.
No thank you, Microsoft is doing fine with GitHub
