Google Code Shutting Down

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Google's project hosting service, Google Code, is the latest Google product to get the axe. Launched in 2006, the site hosted many FLOSS-type software projects and provided free downloads, source code management, an issue tracker, and wiki pages. Although new project creation is already disabled, the site will stay functional until August 2015 in order to give projects time to migrate to alternatives, such as GitHub and GitLab.

With so many high-profile Google services inexplicably closing, one has to wonder if relying on the continued availability of any Google services is a good idea. Of course, closures are not always exclusive to Google. Gitorious and Freecode are recent examples of other project development sites that have recently shut their doors.

Re: Google Yanks Another One (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-03-16 15:35 (#51N8)

While I do agree with you in theory, I'm fairly confident that GMail is just about the last service they would shut down (after search and adsense). Everyone, and I mean _everyone_ in their 20's in the US uses it.

Imagine the public backlash* that would be directed at Google if they took everyone's favorite toy away. That aspect alone is enough to keep it going ad infinitum.

Until it becomes glaringly obvious that Google is hemorrhaging money by shutting down maps, drive or books, I will consider my gmail account long-lived.

*spread by the most social media-savvy generation no less
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