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In a way, you're right. However GitHub's model is subscriptions fund the free yet small open repositories whereas SourceForge's model is advertisement (I can't
by Joakal 15y ago
In a way, you're right. However GitHub's model is subscriptions fund the free yet small open repositories whereas SourceForge's model is advertisement (I can't find a way to on SF though).
So naturally, GitHub had to appeal for subscribers. While for SF, I always thought ads was stupid due to the educated demographic that would likely have adblock.
- jbk 15y agoMost of the people who go on SF, are people downloading popular open source software binaries. See http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week And those people are not the educated demographic that have adblock...