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SourceForge Drifting
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.
till VA runs out of money, I wonder what slashdot will do?
All your drift is belong to us.
See my vest, see my vest made from real gorilla chest.
Truth hurts, doesn't it? Why let it go out on me with your moderation points...
I think all your days are numbered. :-D
The Register? Objective?
Whose crack are you smoking? It's quite good.
"This is like the fall of the USSR -- Communists finally realizing their system is untenable. Sad, but inevitable. :-("
I hardly think the fall of the communism was SAD!
one less junkie = one less welfare check
cocain,heroin,etc.. = population control
Praise Pablo!!!
Hi, you continue to be a leech on slashdot's average IQ. Thank you for your dopey comments.
VA isn't trying to show the open source community jack shit. They are trying to survive.
Obviously you didn't delve too deeply into Linux based on your paragraph about what Linux lacks support for. You say "Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc", but ALL of these points are wrong (even in the kernel version you were using).
Journalling file system: ReiserFS
memory protection: has been in since 0.x days. A kernel panic is a bug, not a lack of a feature. Also, the VM in 2.4.9 wasn't exactly stable. 2.4.14 is.
SMP: My experience is that SMP in linux works better than Win2k.
And don't think I am saying this because I hate MS products. I don't. I use Win2k/Exchange for my home network, and Win2k Pro on my laptops. But if you are going to pick on Linux, try finding something with a basis in fact.
SourceForge is dying.
.05*1400 = 70 paying SourceForge customers.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered SourceForge community when last month IDC confirmed that SourceForge accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Source Code. Coming on the heels of the latest Slashdot Poll which plainly states that SourceForge has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SourceForge is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent MySql Database Uptime comprehensive test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SourceForge's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SourceForge faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SourceForge because SourceForge is dying. Things are looking very bad for SourceForge. As many of us are already aware, SourceForge continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Slashdot is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SourceForge leader CmdrTaco states that there are 1,00,000 users of SourceForge. How many users of Sourceforge are there? Let's see. The number of Natalie Portman posts versus SourceForge posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5,000 to 1. There are approximately 250,000 Slashdot users. Therefore there are about 250,000/5000 = 50 SourceForge users who read Slashdot. SourceForge posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows posts. A recent article put FreeSourceForge at about 1 percent of the Source Code market. Therefore there are (50+100+200)4 = 1400 SourceForge users. This is consistent with the number of SourceForge Usenet posts. Market estimates are that 5% of SourceForge users subscribe to the closed-source SourceForge 3.0. There are approximately
Due to the troubles of Andover.net, abysmal sales and so on, Andover went out of business and was taken over by OSDN who sells another troubled OS. Now Kuro5hin is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SourceForge has steadily declined in market share. SourceForge is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SourceForge is to survive at all it will be among Linux using Slashdot readers and terrorists. SourceForge continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SourceForge is dead.
Way to bite on the troll, moron.
YOU = WINNAR.
These white slippers are albino African endangered rhino!
He's already been modded up six times. wtf???
heh... sounds like "self-modding", which brings up an off topic discussion. The authors (or anyone, for that matter) having unlimited mod points destroys the moderation system, doesn't it? I mean, the whole point of community modding is destroyed by someone having more than everyone else...
Actions speak louder than words.
Enough said.
DON'T update the article...
This is just another comment, and it's not clear that Hemos is really talking with any authority or first hand knowladge. In other words, in 6 months it is VERY VERY possible that sourceforge.net will be using stuff like Oracle etc.
That was my impression, and I'd like to hear WHY Hemos is so sure that will not happen before he goes and updates any articles. All to often folks post comments where they imply they know something with authority, when they really have just as little first hand knowladge as the rest of us who follow the issue closely.
The Man is a geeky fat-ass faggot?
You da man, you da man!
Hello, I am a Slashdot moderator. You're probably wondering why I moderated your comment down to the depths of trolldom. Well, frankly, I think you're a motherfucking idiot. I don't like Anonymous Cowards, so I moderate them down. Even bitchfucks like you! Just thought I'd tell you. Perhaps next time you should log in, because nobody reads below a +1 threshold anymore.
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Ya that anonymous coward always whores karma, what a fucker. He must have reached his 50 limit cap forever ago.
Oh and I've seen at least 4 other people with "your" sig. Why not try getting something original?
I recorded a wav file of that quote from that South Park episode the day it came out. Does that make me cooler than you.?
I'm looking forward to the new features that Rob has mentioned. With them, I will be able to eliminate, forever, the comments of people who rant and rave about karma points.
The purpose of the Karma system is to improve the content of Slashdot. It is a meritocracy, it is not a contest or a head trip.
Nobody cares how many karma points you accumulate, except you and your pesky little friends.
Please go away.
Have a nice day.