Would the world be a better place if Google bought Gitlab?

IonicFrog, 8 months 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.

onlinepersona, 8 months ago

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

thingsiplay, 8 months ago

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

ArbiterXero, 8 months 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.

nottheengineer, 8 months ago

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

fubo, 8 months ago

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

code.google.com/archive/

thtroyer, 8 months 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, 8 months 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.

PoopMonster, 8 months ago

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