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Just as a little correction, Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Link: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/27/10-year...
> Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Doesn't Google make money on Youtube by showing ads?
I'm a little paranoid about my code. I want to like github's private repos, but I don't want my code to be stolen by github's internal employees. I've heard that their employees do shady things on occasion (2nd hand knowledge).
I wonder whether something like [0] would work, where the repository is encrypted on push and decrypted on pull. Might be against Github's terms of use, though. [0]: https://rovaughn.github.io/2015-2-9.html
I think one of the underappreciated point of github is its excellent business model. The freemium model of providing everything for free if your code is public and charging only for private repositories allowed them to grow exponentially with rising popularity among open source projects. Sourceforge and Google code tried to cater only for open source projects, while never thinking that code hosting is the problem tha…
I wish Sourceforge would have come to that realization. Anytime I search for something that tends to be older enterprisy-ish code and it shows up in Sourceforge (iText for example) I can never figure out what the hell is and isn't an ad. If I didn't know better I would suspect a malware vendor purchased it and turned it into a honeypot for lazy devs.
I think one of the underappreciated point of github is its excellent business model. The freemium model of providing everything for free if your code is public and charging only for private repositories allowed them to grow exponentially with rising popularity among open source projects. Sourceforge and Google code tried to cater only for open source projects, while never thinking that code hosting is the problem tha…
Actually, Google didn't care at the time. We weren't catering, Google Code required you be an open source project to use it. It literally was not trying to solve this problem, because it did not want to.
We knew commercial code hosting was a problem to be solved, we just didn't care :)
I'm a little paranoid about my code. I want to like github's private repos, but I don't want my code to be stolen by github's internal employees. I've heard that their employees do shady things on occasion (2nd hand knowledge).
Employees of any company in the world can do shady things. You need to trust your server hosting company, your server OS vendor, your own workstation's software, your OS, all your firmware... If GitHub employees stole proprietary code from you, and commercialized it, proving "prior art" and theft should be extremely easy for you. IANAL, but it's not something I'd worry about with most companies hosting on Github.
If you even find out, and if you do it would cost a lot of time and money to reclaim what is yours. It's not hard to setup your own servers, it's becoming a lost art in today's cloud microcosm but its really not hard to do yourself and do it right.
Legitimate question. Do you think GitHub would accept a lucrative offer from Google? On the order of billions of dollars. How would that look? Where would we all be then? How much would it change things? Is it even realistic?
I think it's perfectly realistic, and wouldn't necessarily mean things would go south post take over. YouTube is still very much alive, brand and all, and it's been many years since the take over.
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Employees of any company in the world can do shady things. You need to trust your server hosting company, your server OS vendor, your own workstation's software, your OS, all your firmware... If GitHub employees stole proprietary code from you, and commercialized it, proving "prior art" and theft should be extremely easy for you. IANAL, but it's not something I'd worry about with most companies hosting on Github.
> proving "prior art" and theft should be extremely easy for you If you even find out, and if you do it would cost a lot of time and money to reclaim what is yours. It's not hard to setup your own servers, it's becoming a lost art in today's cloud microcosm but its really not hard to do yourself and do it right.
I'm a little paranoid about my code. I want to like github's private repos, but I don't want my code to be stolen by github's internal employees. I've heard that their employees do shady things on occasion (2nd hand knowledge).
If you want a similar solution to GH instead of just a bare Git installation, you could look into running your own GitLab instance. Their software is open source and freely available. Of course, that way you would have to trust your hoster unless you are running your own in-house server.
I think one of the underappreciated point of github is its excellent business model. The freemium model of providing everything for free if your code is public and charging only for private repositories allowed them to grow exponentially with rising popularity among open source projects. Sourceforge and Google code tried to cater only for open source projects, while never thinking that code hosting is the problem tha…
Github hasn't centralized all open source code Because git itself is decentralized. If only other social networks let you extract your data so easily.
I do agree about other social networks though.