SourceForge Drifting

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 12, 2001 @06:23AM from the yeah-i-don't-like-it-either dept.

Zocalo sent us a story running at FSF Europe talking about SourceForge's Drifting. Talks about the fact that they are releasing a closed-source version of the code commercially and various copyright related things. Obviously VA owns both SF and Slashdot so I'm skewed, but my personal opinion is that VA is doing what they need to do to make a buck while still providing the SourceForge.net website to the Open Source community. And I think their decision to sell a closed-source proprietary version of the code would be hypocritical, except that they aren't a 100% open-source company any more. And *that* is the part that makes me the most sad.

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Sourceforge drifting??? by Sonicboom · 2001-11-12 06:36 · Score: 2, Funny

God, just take a dual PII-400 w/ 128mb of RAM running NT4/IIS/Exchange - and tie a rope to it. Tie it to sourceforge.

With an anchor like that - they'll never drift!

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Re:Misinformation Correction by geomcbay · 2001-11-12 07:23 · Score: 3, Funny

for them to survivie they have to thread carefully nowdays

It is always good to thread carefully! Otherwise you might run into deadlocks or other problems.
Re:Misinformation Correction by iomud · 2001-11-12 12:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Quick someone go register open-sourceforge.org.