07-28-2006, 10:14 AM
Quote: Google is scheduled to announce hosting for open source projects on Google Code today during Greg Stein's talk at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)...
I sat down yesterday with Stein and Google's open source program manager Chris DiBona, who describe the service as similar to SourceForge.net and other community hosting projects, but not designed to compete with those projects.
Stein says, "We really like SourceForge, and we don't want to hurt SourceForge" or take away projects. Instead, Stein says that the goal is to see what Google can do with the Google infrastructure, to provide an alternative for open source projects...
full article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=...27/1833251
Google Code's new home: http://code.google.com/hosting/
The Google Code FAQ: http://code.google.com/faq.html