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posted by n1 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity dept.

If you read SoylentNews, Ars Technica, Reddit, or anywhere other than the other site, you've probably heard about SourceForge hijacking accounts and monetizing open source software with crapware installers. It seems the other site is intent on burying that information. Perhaps they don't consider it newsworthy?

For those still using SourceForge, there are many superior alternatives.

Update: 06/02 03:27 GMT by mrcoolbp : Slashdot ran the story this morning.


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  • (Score: 2) by TLA on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:39AM

    by TLA (5128) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:39AM (#191091) Journal

    Slashdot caved because of the immense pressure from its users (and a lot of them threatening to migrate elsewhere), plus the fact that other subject threads are being flooded with references to Dice's scummy behaviour, enough to background the thread and give the exposure enough of a blatant banner that it could no longer be "swept under the carpet". It wasn't a "news for nerds" thing, it was an "OK, you got us with our pants around our ankles".

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