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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] 1 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] 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

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