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Comment by eternalban | Hacker News Reader

I love Github but if they sell to Google, it will be goodbye.

I concur.

I know! It would be horrible to have the service be free, and integrated with Google's other search and social features and therefore more visible to the world!

THE HORROR!!1

In all seriousness, I’m happy for them to index my public repositories, but no, I don’t want my email program to show me “relevant” ads based on my private repositories or integrate the contents of my private repositories into their profile of mine.

How would one advertise based on the contents of a repository anyways? Searching for a lot of swearing in the commit messages and recommending anger management?

On a serious note, I would guess that having your commit history and cross referencing it with the issues db (seeing things you closed or breaks caused by your code) might be quite interesting to a recruiter and a source of some pretty targeted (read: expensive) advertising.

[edit: not to mention company lawyers looking to sue some NDA violating employees]

I can think of a few ways.

Perhaps you could grep for common libraries like "ffmpeg" and make a guess as to what sort of software it is. Maybe a video editor/player in the case of ffmpeg. Once you figure that out, you could show advertisements for the same sort of software.

I wouldn't want to have to use my real name via a Google+ account in order to commit code.

Google often kills off the product when they acquire the company.

But they steal the good features. Etherpad's functionality is now in Docs, for example.

I think most of githubs innovations could likely be added to google code without acquiring github. The technology isn't really what makes github special.

The etherpad developers were hired to help work on wave. Google docs implemented collaborative editing independently of etherpad and the wave team.

I've come to the conclusion that a lot of you have an issue with sarcasm even when it's obviously marked :(

site:github.com <terms> is all the integration that I need.

So it's already free, it's already integrated into Google's search, if I want to be social about what I'm coding I can easily share it on G+...

What problems would be solved by doing anything differently?

If Google bought it and nothing changed I'd be happy!!! However, I don't think that'd be the case. Things would change and I suspect for the worse, since it's not a big cash cow like search is.

Yeah and if they buy github maybe they can integrate social coding features using Google Plus and force hackers to code using their real names. The horror...

people like you, forgetting the "" the html 4.00 way, are ruining the internez

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