2015-12-17 17:08 GMT-03:00 Nicolas Anquetil <[email protected]>: > > > On 17/12/2015 20:46, Peter Uhnák wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> 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? > > 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)
