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What's unsettling about this is that Slashdot also belongs to the same company that turned SF into the crapware distributor that it is now.
by eps 11y ago
What's unsettling about this is that Slashdot also belongs to the same company that turned SF into the crapware distributor that it is now.
- dredmorbius 11y agoSlashdot split from Thinkgeek a few years back.
- simoncion 11y agoBoth Slashdot and SourceForge are currently owned by the company that owns Dice.com.
- dredmorbius 11y agoGood point. Thanks. I'd thought Collab.net ended up with them. Need to review the history.
- dbellizzi 11y agoCollab ended up with the business version, SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE), which was a Java rewrite of sourceforge.net shipped as installed software.
- flyinghamster 11y agoNot only that, but a quick search for GIMP on Slashdot turns up absolutely no discussion about the hijack. There was an <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/11/07/2328228/gimp-citing-ad-policies-moves-to-ftp-rather-than-sourceforge-downloads">article http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/11/07/2328228/gimp-citing-a... in 2013 that GIMP was moving</a>, and <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/11/14/2036200/sourceforge-appeals-to-readers-for-help-nixing-bad-ad-actors">another http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/11/14/2036200/source... a week later</a> about SF's ad policies (LOL!), but absolutely nothing from this week. Color me unsurprised. I knew /. was heading downhill, but this is the final nail in the coffin.