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Is Google Code In Trouble? No More Open Source Downloads For You

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 24, 2013

Google Code got started back in 2006 as an alternative open source code hosting repository and google codecollaborative development site. At the time of its creation, I had thought that it would competitive with Sourceforge (which it was), but as it turns out Sourceforge will now get the last laugh.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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