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?

  • IonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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    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.