VA Linux to Sell Proprietary Version of Sourceforge

Cassivs writes: "There's an article claiming that VA Linux is planning on selling a proprietary, closed-source version of SourceForge, SourceForge Enterprise Edition. See the letter to SourceForge members assuring them that VA Linux will continue to provide free hosting/etc. at SourceForge. They will also continue to maintain a GPL version of the code, SourceForge Open Edition." VA is Slashdot's corporate parent.

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VA is Slashdot's corporate parent

[oddo]

"VA is Slashdot's corporate parent"

And therefore Slashdot cannot criticize them, even if there are very valid reasons for doing so.

Va losses post ignored

[Defiant One]

I posted this news item last night , but the release at the time had only mentioned the losses VA has racked up instead of servers. They reported 2.9B, but now they have updated it:

update: VA Linux Systems, once one of the flagships of the open-source software world, will rely on sales of proprietary software in the future, the company said today as it reported a $290 million loss for the most recent quarter
- Cnet

What angers me is that my submission was roundly rejected by Slash, but today they allowed a post of the updated release which focused on the pie-in-the-sky prospect of selling SourceForge Enterprise. I bet if IBM, or some other competitor of VA had such a loss, the post would not have been rejected! You know, when I started posting on Slash, I thought it was a circle jerk; now it's obvious.