A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future
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#2Nah. Bridges burned.
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#3Nah. Bridges burned.
New ownership — they didn’t burn the bridges but I agree that I think the name is too tainted now.
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#4History of SourceForge according to me:
- forced users to look at ads and go through two steps in order to download projects
- when that was not enough, injected malware into the files users were downloading
- irrecoverably lost project information
I don’t think they can do anything to salvage their image at this point. The last incident didn’t even inflict too much damage because there wasn’t much left to SourceForge.
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#5Nah. Bridges burned.
New ownership — they didn’t burn the bridges but I agree that I think the name is too tainted now.
Did the new ownership fire every developer and middle manager? If not, that means there are folks at the “new” sourceforge that are perfectly happy bundling malware with OSS downloads. It was not addressed in the article at all so I’m not buying what they’re selling.
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#6> Comments disabled
That pretty much says it all.
Re: A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future
#7I wish them good luck and hope they can be a good competitor to gitlab and github. Some competition is always good. I do hope, as unlikely as it is, though that they move away from the Ad based revenue model.
I personally, am not interested in returning to SourceForge due to all reasons articulated in other comments.
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#9This sentence: "We have the most robust search and discovery system of any open source repository on the web, and offer an unparalleled experience for end-users looking for software binaries they can download and install with the click of a button."
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
New ownership — they didn’t burn the bridges but I agree that I think the name is too tainted now.
Did the new ownership fire every developer and middle manager? If not, that means there are folks at the “new” sourceforge that are perfectly happy bundling malware with OSS downloads. It was not addressed in the article at all so I’m not buying what they’re selling.
They do mention removing bundled installers and implementing virus scans, both of which seem targeted at removing malware from the site.