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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. Ohloh's programming language chart is nice... by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...it shows a breakdown of commits by language; interesting stuff. Of course, the sample is limited to the projects they're tracking, and the metric - number of commits - is affected by the source code mgmt tool's idioms. Still, nice AJAXy-ness.

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  2. Re:I love slashdot, but... by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You'd be surprised how quickly ad money can add up on popular websites. Plus Thinkgeek sells a lot of things and has a nice markup on some items.

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  3. Re:Congratulations! by legirons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    so what happens when a site known for its great features and well-designed user-interface gets bought by a company with a phobia of both things?

  4. Re:Not a Good Thing by TinBromide · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For some reason, (and i could be wrong) but it feels like the people who run thinkgeek, slashdot, and other sites under the umbrella may have a bit of autonomy as to how they run things. While yes, there will always be corporate mandates handed down from on high (DO THIS!), perhaps the ohloh.net managers will realize that how sourceforge does their ads was costing them big projects and would resist change as good nerds should.

    Then again, I am an eternal optimist that likes to hope for the best, you don't gain anything by ignoring the best or the worst, but if you plan for rainy days but hope you never have to use the plan, you can sleep at night without nightmares.

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  5. Just curious .. by THEbwana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Where are their servers located ? .. would be interesting to know, due to various regional annoyances such as the DMCA, opposition to open versions of DeCSS etc.