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SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-conspiracy-on dept.

SourceForge, Inc. (parent company of Slashdot, and the corporate overlord of SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek) announced today plans to purchase Ohloh, a three-year-old Seattle company that runs Ohloh.net, a software-development portal that specializes in the community aspects of distributed open source projects. The purchase will probably be final as of next month. (I hope no one requires that I show up to an office, just because one will be nearby.)

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  1. Re:Not a Good Thing by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suppose such projects will move to Google Code, but it's important to remember that choice is a good thing, and not everybody is happy with SourceForge.

    So SourceForge will just buy Google!

  2. Re:Congratulations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The site starts to look like slashdot.

  3. Re:Not a Good Thing by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I could picture was the SourceForge accountants dragging a couple of barrels of pennies to the front door of the Google office in Mountain View, and a Roomba calling security.

  4. Re:Congratulations! by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    They change the name so it doesn't sound like something chanted by an Age of Empires priest?

    --
    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  5. Re:I love slashdot, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a bit like shitting on your mom to reward her for making you dinner.

    Wow, disturbing. How about, it's a bit like refusing to help your mom clear the table after she made you a delicious dinner. Or painting your mom white afterwards, whatever.