“Over the past few months the SourceForge development facility, which hosts a large number of Free Software projects, has changed its policies. Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed. The implementation used to be exclusively Free Software but is now based on non-free software. Finally, VA Linux has become rather underhand in their attempts to grasp exclusive control of contributors’ work. SourceForge did a lot of good for the Free Software community, but it’s now time to break free.” Read the rest of the editorial at FSFEurope.org.
SourceForge Drifting
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In many ways I agree. I saw this comented upon about 6 months ago. But does anyone else detect a sense of hysteria here?
I’ve used SourceForge for about a year for different projects, and I don’t have quite the same fears that most people seem to have. I will agree that there is a dangerous potential for SF.net to disappear if shareholders wanted more money saved, but I don’t think this would happen too quickly, and besides, maybe someone like IBM would step in and save the day.