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SourceForge was sold to a new owner a few years ago. All of that type of thing ended with the new ownership.
by tssva 5y ago
SourceForge was sold to a new owner a few years ago. All of that type of thing ended with the new ownership.
- user-the-name 5y agoYou don't come back from that kind of thing that easily. Even if the current owner doesn't do that, who's to say who the owner will be tomorrow?
- dmd 5y agoBy that logic you can’t trust anything anywhere.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoTrue but it is a point, and one that has lead to the emergence of decentralised open source initiatives that can never be taken over by a hostile entity. Maybe it's time for a code 'matrix' too. Especially now that github was taken over by Microsoft, prompting many projects to move away. I don't think Microsoft is a bad caretaker but something with zero commercial interest at heart is always better IMO.
- webmaven 5y ago> By that logic you can’t trust anything anywhere. Well, that's just an argument for only using services that are open source, such that you could self-host, and more importantly, someone else can stand up a new (paid or otherwise) hosting service in competition with the one that has gone bad.
- user-the-name 5y agoYes, you can't, but there are lots of indicators you can use to judge how much you can trust any service. And a service that has been sold countless times and has engaged in shady behaviour in the past scores pretty badly there.