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Tim Perdue on GForge & Building SourceForge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the walk-down-memory-lane dept.

Steve Mallett writes "I've just posted an interview I did with Tim Perdue, former co-'head honcho' responsible for developing SourceForge. You'll either love it or hate the interview, but it's on his new project GForge, a fork of the previously open source code running SF, while he shares some insight in what seems like a miracle that SourceForge was built at all." Obviously Slashdot's parent runs SourceForge, so insert whatever mental disclaimer and conspiracy theory you want here.

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  1. Server51 not a ripoff. by chrisd · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hey, so as one of the people around during the time, it was not the majority view that Server51 was a ripoff of sf. I can only speak for myself of course, but I never felt that way. People have the smae good ideas all the time.

    Chrisd

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  2. Sourceforget by heroine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After having 5 free hosts go out of business throughout the 90's, I finally moved to sourceforget in 2000 when linuxbox.com went out of business. While Sourceforget has reduced it's services in the recession years it's managed to stay alive. The fact that Tony Guntharp invented Sourceforget and for his effort was laid off is something to keep in mind as you embark on your computer science careers.

  3. Re:How does Savannah fit in all this by zerOnIne · · Score: 3, Insightful

    savannah forked back in the SF 2.0 days to make an all-GNU and (at the time) only-GNU implementation and site ... originally it was really just a way to control the GNU CVS repositories better, but it's grown a lot since then ... it has forked substantially with other SF derivatives at this point (due to its ancient baseline, mostly)

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