GoogleCode: Sourceforge-like Open Source Software Project Hosting Launched

[mandy]

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

[misteroriginal]

The goal is not to compete with Sourceforge, but rather to give open source project an alternative to Sourceforge?

Yeah, and my goal in writing this is not to be sarcastic, but to show how stupid that statement is with acerbic wit.

That pretty much sums up my view of it.