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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by mort96 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:45PM (#20751167)
But why buy such a tarnished trademark which has garnered so much ill will over the years for horrible practices? Is it a form of "all PR is good PR", that it's better to have a recognized but hated name than to have a name nobody knows of?
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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by loganabbott on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:19PM (#20752787)
Most people have gotten the message that things have changed at SourceForge. We bought it to redeem the name and protect free open source software.
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