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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. Not a Good Thing by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't really see this as a good thing. In my experience many of the projects on Ohloh.net are there because the maintainers were unhappy or frustrated with problems they were having at SourceForge. FileZilla, for example, kept complaining to SourceForge that the ads that showed up would always include download links to sites charging for download of FileZilla.

    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.

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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: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.

  2. 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?

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