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I think it's important to cut SourceForge some slack. They've provided a really valuable service for a long time. Monetizing on the Internet isn't easy and we s
by jmathai 13y ago
I think it's important to cut SourceForge some slack. They've provided a really valuable service for a long time. Monetizing on the Internet isn't easy and we shouldn't pretend like it is. It's less easy if you've been around as a free service for a decade. Not to mention having a newly created formidable opponent.
I hope they find a better path to monetization. But this idea that they don't care about users and are doing this "only for the money" is a bit much.
I know from first hand experience that when it comes to monetizing a service that you have to be realistic about your options. Sometimes your best option is somewhere between the ideal scenario and shutting a service down.
- tobyjsullivan 13y agoIt's one thing to attempt to monetize a platform, it's another completely to sell out your users and blur the lines of what's ethical. Their methods are neither new nor innovative. They have simply been used historically by less-than-honest organizations. When SourceForge started monetizing by confusing their users, they opened themselves up to criticism.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoThis was a pilot program with exactly 3 out of 1/3 of a million projects. Opt in. Not a whole-hog switch of anything like, say, Download.com.