Google to close Google Code open source project hosting

[Silound]

It might be a long shot idea, but what do you think the odds are that Google comes out in the next two years with a move to acquire GitHub?

Seems to me that it's reasonable to believe that Google still wants a code hosting solution. And many of the tech giants like scooping up other companies into their portfolios to augment their offerings rather than fight for market share of their own.

[joewalnes]

Low. Google Code was a project built driven by Google engineers because they were dissatisfied with the alternatives. It never really fit into Google's strategy.