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This information is outdated, SourceForge at the time was owned by a company that tried to squeeze everything out of it but it was bought last year by some peop
by badsectoracula 9y ago
This information is outdated, SourceForge at the time was owned by a company that tried to squeeze everything out of it but it was bought last year by some people who seem interested in restoring its reputation and functionality. The first thing they did when they bought the site was to remove all that stuff, cancel the DevShare program and install automatic malware detection software (based on BitDefender and ESET). They also removed all the misleading ads and disable them for logged in users.
There was a discussion about it yesterday too about another project hosted in SourceForge, you can find it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180586
- jancsika 9y ago> This information is outdated, SourceForge at the time was owned by a company that tried to squeeze everything out of it but it was bought last year by some people who seem interested in restoring its reputation and functionality. It's worth remembering that the company that initially tried to do the squeezing spent many years being a decent FLOSS citizen. That's the reason so many open source projects were hosted on Sourceforge in the first place.
- GrinningFool 9y agoIIRC the original owners sold it to Dice, which is when the squeezing started.