Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
by chillingeffect on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @07:06AM
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> I don't remember a time in which Sourceforge was the hero, as much as I try
No offense to you personally, but this is a case where it's about grey hair more than ability.
There was certainly a time when Sourceforge was the wham-bam-snickety-snack boom-blam bomb. It was when Slashdot was the Hacker News, when "LAMP" was a new term, when 10Gbps across the U.S. (vs. your living room) was a Big Deal.
> If we'll look down in history, I think there are very few villains that have acted as heroes when starting out.
This is called playing "I told you so." In reality every organization begins with high ideals then adjusts to reality. The elegance of this transition defines how villainous they've become. Consider McDonalds and Whole Foods. Both seemed delightful at the beginning. We see how McDs is now cancerous (or at least diabetesacious) and Whole Foods is anti-union, but surviving anyway, a "mundane evil."
You can't predict which company will become evil or not.
No offense to you personally, but this is a case where it's about grey hair more than ability.
There was certainly a time when Sourceforge was the wham-bam-snickety-snack boom-blam bomb. It was when Slashdot was the Hacker News, when "LAMP" was a new term, when 10Gbps across the U.S. (vs. your living room) was a Big Deal.
> If we'll look down in history, I think there are very few villains that have acted as heroes when starting out.
This is called playing "I told you so." In reality every organization begins with high ideals then adjusts to reality. The elegance of this transition defines how villainous they've become. Consider McDonalds and Whole Foods. Both seemed delightful at the beginning. We see how McDs is now cancerous (or at least diabetesacious) and Whole Foods is anti-union, but surviving anyway, a "mundane evil."
You can't predict which company will become evil or not.