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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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However Amazon isn't profitable either -- never has been.

True, however Amazon has been constantly investing in new warehouses, infrastructure, adding new products, expanding their current offerings, etc. I can't think of a single unique or new thing GoDaddy has done in the past 10 years.

They do have lots of fancy ads.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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They used to use SourceForge to distribute bottles (binaries), but have switched to Bintray a while ago.

Do you know anyone else who uses bintray? I'm considering hosting downloads for the open source projects I maintain with them, but never heard of it much before.

Off the top of my head I recall only Vagrant (https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant)

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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As I understand it, they only block russian IPs from accessing it. That seems ok to me. Every country has it's own laws. There is now completely free speach anywhere around the world.

But that doesn’t happen – if a repo violates US law, they remove it completely, even if it would have been completely fine under German law, for example.

Is that because their servers are in the US? A bit different in that case.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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True, however Amazon has been constantly investing in new warehouses, infrastructure, adding new products, expanding their current offerings, etc. I can't think of a single unique or new thing GoDaddy has done in the past 10 years.

They do have lots of fancy ads.

A lot of sexist ads as well.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Honestly, I don't see how they aren't in trouble yet. With how long GoDaddy has been around, and how dominant they are in terms of "casual" domain owners, it blew me away when I saw that they have yet to be profitable a single year.

However Amazon isn't profitable either -- never has been.

Who the hell cares? Instead of "posting profits", Amazon reinvests its massive EBITDA into itself, and has shown continuous growth because of it.

Not focusing on shareholders sounds great to me.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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post #105

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As I understand it, they only block russian IPs from accessing it. That seems ok to me. Every country has it's own laws. There is now completely free speach anywhere around the world.

But that doesn’t happen – if a repo violates US law, they remove it completely, even if it would have been completely fine under German law, for example.

If GitHub is hosted in the US, and a repo that is hosted by GitHub violates US law, they probably cannot continue to host that repo in the US and serve it only to non-US clients.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understand it, they only block russian IPs from accessing it. That seems ok to me. Every country has it's own laws. There is now completely free speach anywhere around the world.

But that doesn’t happen – if a repo violates US law, they remove it completely, even if it would have been completely fine under German law, for example.

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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understand it, they only block russian IPs from accessing it. That seems ok to me. Every country has it's own laws. There is now completely free speach anywhere around the world.

But that doesn’t happen – if a repo violates US law, they remove it completely, even if it would have been completely fine under German law, for example.

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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I think NumPy still uses SourceForge.

and github - https://github.com/numpy/numpy

This is great! It still looks like you have to go to SF for the windows installers; am I missing something?

Do you know if there's any plans to move away from SourceForge? If I was in charge of the project, I'm not sure what I'd do. Maybe move all active development to github, but not abandon the SF repo to malware injection?

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#170

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Honestly, I don't see how they aren't in trouble yet. With how long GoDaddy has been around, and how dominant they are in terms of "casual" domain owners, it blew me away when I saw that they have yet to be profitable a single year.

However Amazon isn't profitable either -- never has been.

False. Amazon had positive net income in 2011 and 2013 of $631 and $274 million respectively.
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