Re:Notepad++ leaves SourceForge
by ChuckMcM on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:55PM
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I find the rapidly increasing collapse of the 'monetize downloads' business model quite refreshing. I hope Github has enough revenue to not have to revert to things like this in the future.
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I imagine so. I don't think SourceForge's commercial offerings ever had much wind behind them, but pretty much every company I've done any kind of work for in recent years has a commercial GitHub account.
Sourceforge sold their commercial offerings (SFEE) to CollabNet in 2007...and they haven't directly competed in that space since.
Re:Notepad++ leaves SourceForge
by davidgerard on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:39AM
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I work for a company that uses paid Github, and it's the BEST THING EVER. We will be happy to keep throwing money at Github well into the future. We just outgrew the "platinum" plan ($200/mo), but they have plans all the way up to "aluminium" (with an I) (just over $1000/mo).
They don't suck and we're enormously happy. As the sysadmin whose job it would otherwise be to manage Gitorious or Gitlab locally, I am delighted to be able to outsource this task.
So yeah, I'm extrapolating from anecdote but for the moment I think their prospects of continued payment for services are pretty good.