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Re:Why GitHub Won by BSDobelix on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:26PM (#41490989)
>hard pressed to argue SF was a great hosting environment when Google Code launched

But SF had FTP, Websites, SVN hosting and i think even a WIKI, so you can hardly compare it with Google-Code...and hey at least they opensource'd their "forge":

https://allura.apache.org/

IDK i don't have such bad memory's about SF, even today you serve big files over SF because of GH limits.

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Re:Why GitHub Won by ndiddy on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:15PM (#41491605)
SourceForge was originally open source, but they later closed it. GNU Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/) runs on a fork of the last open version of SourceForge.
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Re:Why GitHub Won by BSDobelix on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:10PM (#41492353)
>SourceForge was originally open source

True after slashdot got buy'd, they also served malware AFTER the takeover (2013), and now look at that year:

Allura graduated from incubation with the Apache Software Foundation in March >>2013

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura

Google-Code was in 2006 right?

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