[xyzzyz]

> Especially free services - the free service you use can go under or away in a matter of days. Example: google code.

Google Code is a bad example, as it was announced 9 months before the actual closure, and it's pretty easy to take out your data from there. But, I get your point completely.

[nadams]

Well...kind of. When they announced they would be dropping support for downloads - at that point I know it wasn't if but when they were going to shut down google code. Also, if you look at their issue tracker - it's pretty clear there isn't anyone on the other end [1].

I mean I could probably come up with pages of instances where services are changing features, remove features, or go under. Remember Google Wave (I know people in business context that was using it)? How about when Github pulled uploads (but then reintroduced them later as "Releases") [2]?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=...

[2] https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads