Google creates cloud code cache With an uncharacteristic lack of fanfare, Google has decided to hang around the kitchen at the code repository party. With Microsoft, AWS, and Atlassian and BitBucket already eyeing off the popularity of GitHub, it's probably no surprise that the Chocolate Factory would also like a piece of the action. Google has been quietly …
yeah....
Cause it would be sensible to trust google with your source code
They have a deep rooted level respect for IP!
1 - they do, they just want a free copy for their own use, forever (you agree to that when you get a Google account, read their T&Cs:
When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services.
Call be fickle, but I have a problem with that sort of agreement if I'm developing something that may possibly compete with anything that Google does or may want to get its hands in because they're a bit one-directional when it comes to sharing. It reminds me of the stifling effect Microsoft has had on innovation over the years - this is yet another occurrence where it appears Google is using Microsoft's playbook but taking it much further than even Microsoft dared.
2 - I'm not so worried about IP theft in what is a public register, I'm more worried about insertions and alterations. As their main source of income is surveillance it only seems logical to exercise caution with any "free" offers that come from that corner. For example, there are parties out there that would pay LOTS of money to weaken crypto, and now SSLv3 is officially dead they need all the "help" they can get buy.
It was only 3 months ago that they announced the shutdown of their Google Code project hosting service and now they are opening another one. WTF?
This actually predates the Google Code shutdown announcement. They have had Git repositories, push-to-deploy and syncing with Github & Bitbucket for roughly absolutely ages (I've been using the latter for over a year).
Here's a blog post that talks about it 2 years ago:
http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/google-app-engine-hello-world-using.html
They made some changes back in Feb/March this year and recently stuck a page up on the Cloud Platform website - that's the news (if you click Get Started, you'll see it basically talks you through creating a Cloud Platform project).
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