Interview with Googles Greg Stein and Chris DiBona

rchapman writes "After the announcement of the new Google Code service at OSCON 2006 in Portland Oregon, we had the distinct pleasure of sitting down and talking with Google's Open Source Program Manager, Chris DiBona and their Lead Open Source Engineer, Greg Stein in a little more detail. Read the full interview here."

Quick Summary

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Q: Are there any plans to do things such as indexing the projects on SourceForge and adding them into the search database on the Google Code site?
A: Oh yes. We definitely want to do that, as with FreshMeat. That's pretty far off though...

Q: So do you think you'll see many converts from sites like SourceForge and FreshMeat to Google Code?
A: Yeah, there will probably be a couple. Also, we don't offer the kind of services that SourceForge does. We're doing something both less and different.

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They don't seem to be doing anything innovative or even exciting. They're just using the power & name of google to create another tool.