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IIRC, Sourceforge's reputation was being tarnished even before the malware. Sourceforge had some kind of data loss incident, whereupon open source developers I
by neilv 3y ago
IIRC, Sourceforge's reputation was being tarnished even before the malware. Sourceforge had some kind of data loss incident, whereupon open source developers I knew started referring to it as "Sourceforget".
Later, one day someone said in a group of Linux developers, "So, Linus made a version control system...", kinda amused. I didn't know whether Torvalds was actually going to use it for Linux, and didn't even consider that it might be adopted by pretty much all software developers of any kind.
It was even named "git", like it was aggressively trying to be unmarketable.
But at some point, GitHub emerged, and grew a very favorable reputation. Then they sold out.
- doublerabbit 3y ago> Then they sold out. Ah, finally someone recollects the original. People look at me funny when I tell them it wasn't an Microsoft creation.