Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by pjc50 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:18AM (#9651987)

Github are indeed the heroes of the day and have an enterprise revenue model. So far, so good. But Sourceforge is sixteen years old. Will Github still be the good guys in 2030? It's impossible to know.

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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by ksherlock on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:45AM (#9652087)

SourceForge used to have an enterprise revenue model, too. They bet the company (or at least the name) on it - VA Research -> VA Linux -> VA Software -> SourceForge -> GeekNet -> {Dice and HotTopic^WGameStop}.

If Github ever pivots to selling t-shirts, run.

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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by judofyr on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:58AM (#9652172)

http://github.myshopify.com/

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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by yellowapple on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:32PM (#9656780)

Welp. Time to switch to BitBucket, then.

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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by Nelson69 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:09PM (#9655033)

SF/VA gave Linus and ESR stock. I believe ESR and several others were on some sort of community advisory committee to them. Part of SF's problem was that they didn't want to pick winners so much as create and facilitate "community" they had multiple choices for different tools they hosted. They had build servers and such as that seemed at the time like problem space (how do you know if your code runs on Itanium?) They made, what at the time was, an unprecedented effort to engage community and not be evil.

Ultimately someone needs to pay some bills though, a few transactions later and this seems remarkably far from their start. It's embarrassing and shocking.

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