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Re:SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold by toyg on Friday January 29, 2016 @08:58AM (#10995168)
Not just that, SF's infrastructure is incredibly obsolete.

Before the malware shenanigans started, they could have tried to relaunch with a full rewrite, keeping just the brand. Now even the brand is tainted, there is nothing left except a large database of users and SSH keys (and Slashdot, which apparently is still read by some people).

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Re:SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold by siegecraft on Friday January 29, 2016 @10:10AM (#10995596)
I think that's a bit harsh.. there is still a ton of software hosted only on sourceforge. And plenty of people that need the software that don't know about sourceforge's bad behavior. When I am researching random software or libraries, I find myself on an almost daily basis temporarily overriding the ublock rule for sourceforge.
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