Google Announces Open Source Repository 229
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.'"
SourceForge, we hardly knew ye (Score:5, Funny)
I guess they mean that in the sense that the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't intended to compete with an intramural squad playing in a park. Shall we start the SourceForge countdown clock?
More words missing from the original post (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new overl[b]oooooo[/b]rds.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
And that, kids, is why we use the 'Preview' button. Durr.
Re:SourceForge is easy to beat (Score:5, Funny)
Have you seen their slogan?
Release early, release often
but is it open source (Score:2, Funny)
Next: Googledot? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SourceForge, we hardly knew ye (Score:5, Funny)
Now they just need some OSS naming... (Score:5, Funny)
Google Repository for Open-Source Software
Or perhaps Google Open-source Repository Project [wikipedia.org].
SourceForge has ads? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky? (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, I happen to think that's a good thing, ye scurvey dogs, ye.
Re:SourceForge is easy to beat (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like those young'uns need to learn Tantric programming.
Re:Now they just need some OSS naming... (Score:2, Funny)
maybe google will even remember that i'm logged in (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SourceForge is easy to beat (Score:1, Funny)
Chris DiBona and SourceForge non-compete? (Score:3, Funny)