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Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge

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

ghost writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by archshade on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:59AM

    by archshade (3664) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:59AM (#191096)

    Also if you find a news source you like that isn't insanely biassed you can usually see the pattern of bias and mentally adjust for it. Most media outlets have a running bias across all writers so its not that hard. Once you become aware of the expected bias at the organization level you can look at the individual writers and add a second level of adjustment to them.

    Of course this does not replace multiple news sources. Also always question numbers, look where they came from. Who benefits? Are the conclusions made the conclusions possible? etc...

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