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It was, but we ended that practice immediately after acquiring SourceForge in 2016. More info in the OP or in an AMA I did here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadm

• Moru 9y ago
  But it will be hard to rebuild the trust once ruined.
  • coverband 9y ago
    Sure, but it starts with goodwill...
    • behringer 9y ago
      Goodwill only goes so far. When a restaurant is infested with roaches, you can't just hand food out to people and expect anyone to think the restaurant cleaned up and fumigated. You have to like, tell people that.
• smacktoward 9y ago
  That's very good to hear! I'm honestly not sure if you wouldn't be better off changing the name of the service to something else at this point. People who just want to download binaries won't care what the name is, and developers who want to use the full spectrum of services will have enough bad associations with the name "SourceForge" at this point that keeping it could end up driving away more users than it attracts. And all the time and energy it'll take to rehabilitate the SourceForge brand could just as easily go towards building up some new brand instead, without all the baggage the old name carries. (It's possible I'm overestimating how long peoples' memories are here, of course. But when I hear "SourceForge" I still think of all the bad stuff they did in the past, so presumably there are at least a few others out there like me as well.)
  • DoofusOfDeath 9y ago
    I'll second that. To be honest the Sourceforge brand seems like more of a liability than an asset to me. I don't know if I'm representative of the majority, but if I need to download some software and find that it's hosted on Sourceforge, my first few thoughts are typically: 1) Wait, SourceForge injected adware. I wonder if they still do? 2) This project is probably dead, because it's still on SourceForge. I'm sure I can be trained out of that, but I'm surprised you guys reckon it's worth the effort, rather than just using a new name.
    • LV-426 9y ago
      I totally agree with this, including your 1 and 2, and the parent. This very thread - with repeated posts about malware - demonstrates what "SourceForge" means these days to so many people. It doesn't make sense to me that if the site is back to being one of the good guys, it keeps a name now mostly famous/notorious for bad practices.
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• lucb1e 9y ago
  From that link: > My company acquired SourceForge It's interesting how often you mention they were acquired by someone else but not by whom. It cannot be a secret, but you don't seem to want the parent company known either. I just spent an hour going down the rabbit hole. Every time I click the "owned by" link, another "owned by" reference appears.
  • loganabbott 9y ago
    Coulda just asked. Parent company is called BIZX. We own other sites like Wirefly.com, VoipReview.org, Voip-Info.org, and Slashdot.org.
  • knightofmars 9y ago
    They were acquired by "Dice.com". https://web.archive.org/web/20131208023450/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Dice-Holdings-acquires-Slashdot-and-SourceForge-1711181.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131208023450/http://www.h-onli...
    • loganabbott 9y ago
      Dice.com is who acquired SourceForge a handful of years ago. My company (BIZX) acquired SourceForge from DICE.
      • sundarurfriend 9y ago
        > Dice.com is who acquired SourceForge a handful of years ago. And you could say their ethics were rather... dicey. (Forgive me.)
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• NelsonMinar 9y ago
  It's great you stopped doing that but the malware injection has permanently tarnished the brand.