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Would the world be a better place if Google bought Gitlab? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona to c/programming

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

Buy it, give it a face-lift, add chat and then kill it, all within 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google already tried doing code hosting once. It didn't work out.

https://code.google.com/archive/

[–] thtroyer 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] onlinepersona -3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd do what they are doing to android. Make it as unusable as possible without their proprietary crap.

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2 1 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with android?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] onlinepersona 2 points 1 year ago

They're also one of the biggest clouds out there and their cloud has a git + CI offering (that sucks).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I don't trust Google or Microsoft for privacy and such stuff. But Microsoft does not give up as fast as Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please leave GitLab alone

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't it do them some good?

[–] 0x0 1 points 1 year ago

I don't care, i prefer Codeberg.