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SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps

Posted by kdawson on from the top-of-the-heap dept.

davidmwilliams points us to his story up on IT Wire about the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge. (Sourceforge.net and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge Inc.) He writes, "It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely bursting with potential."

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  1. OSS P2P by Mockylock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wonder what percentage of the software downloaded via OSS P2P is actually Open Source itself?

    I guess you wouldn't necessarily need to download software via P2P if it was actually free to begin with.

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  2. Yar by mqduck · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Okay, this is a really boring article and I doubt stating so will be very controversial.

    Anyhow, I feel like karma whoring or just speaking for no good reason, so I've got a complaint.

    BitTorrent is fundamentally a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Although often associated with piracy, the BitTorrent protocol was initially conceived with positive intentions.

    I resent the implication that pirating is negative.

    That is all.
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  3. Re:Four letters they missed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No they didn't. XBMC isn't one of the five most active projects on SourceForge. Just because it happens to be a project you personally happen to like, it doesn't mean they forgot something when they were writing the article. Don't be so obnoxious, and don't spam.