[nulagrithom]

Well, first, you should consider whether this is actually a problem. I've had coworkers worry about this sort of thing with Travis CI, Coveralls, CodeClimate, etc, the fear being that "they'll have our code and can steal it!!" Took some time to convince them that nobody working at Travis CI gives a shit about our spaghetti code (let alone making it run with no docs!)

If you've taken a hard look at your secret squirrel company stuff and you've decided that 1) these ideas truly are trade secrets worth stealing and 2) they need to be documented in detail inside the product, then yeah, you might want to look at some kind of self-hosted option.

I suspect however that 90% of these concerns are simple hubris, much akin to "sign this NDA before we talk about my startup idea."

[freehunter]

Or we might have client data (even just client names) that we're not allowed to talk about.

If my clients knew I was telling everyone that they run my software, I'd be sunk. And probably sued.

[fbender]

Some of us just don't have a choice due to laws or export regulations.