Sourceforge was briefly free software, proprietary, unpopular and then now kinda-free but nobody trusts them.
Huh? Still completely free
A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future
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> defending Microsoft and their new attitude towards open source What’s odd about that? Isn’t their new attitude better than the old, and perhaps “good enough” (at least compared to other giants)? Are you saying nothing they do should be considered good enough by devs, based on the previous history?
Personally, I'm a big believer in second chances in any facet of life, but people seem to act the way you're describing to Sourceforge, despite giving a pass to other entities. It's all a matter of personal perspective.
I can see the point of both views but I do think the behavior of sf was worse than that of ms (in the case of sf it was a criminal breach of trust).
In any case it does seem like a double standard to not accept the “new people, new philosophy, new chance” in either both or neither case.
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>Now, if you were in this situation and you decided to come back to the old project a few years later (we're now in the early 2000's) wouldn't you expect to be able to continue where you left off? That's unfair. Back then, storage was expensive, backups were expensive, bandwidth was expensive, server CPU time was expensive. You can't fault them for removing unsupported projects in an era when Microsoft and Yahoo were…
That's a fair argument, but couldn't they at least have sent an email about it?
I don't disagree with that. That would have been the right approach.
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It might be free now, but I believe there are some non-free parts. For a long time it was proprietary.
Nope it's still free and has always been free. And it's built on Apache Allura which is open source.
There were years when it wasn’t free and there was a proprietary enterprise edition sold for on-premises usage.