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Originally Posted by foxyshadis
I just don't understand why they don't let you set up Google Drive and then upload transparently downloadable files linked the same way as before.
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Same here. I think the GitHub method is very straight forward. It allows you to create "releases" directly from the source code "tags" in your repository. Source code downloads are added automatically to each release. Binary downloads can then be added (uploaded) manually, via drag&drop. Couldn't be easier! Google could have implemented something like that, just with Google Drive as the back-end. But apparently Google Code is not a priority for them (anymore).
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Originally Posted by foxyshadis
As for abuse, people have been uploading copyrighted material as project downloads. It's fast and there's no waiting; free file hosting is always going to be abused
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Sure, but the same goes for Google Drive and any other file or video hosting platform. Also they could just have removed any "fake" OpenSource projects that only abused the file hosting service and then they could have made registering a new OpenSource project a little bit more challenging. Like at BerliOS, where you have to request a new project with a detailed description of what you are doing. So new projects will be accepted only if the project description is compelling. Sure, this requires more administrative overhead. But how many new
legitimate OpenSource projects are created per day? Can't be that many that a company like Google couldn't have handled it easily...