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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: 4, Informative) by n1 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @11:30AM

    by n1 (993) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @11:30AM (#191104) Journal

    I do see and to a point agree with your point.

    However, Dice is well within their rights to suppress or bury stories, it's not illegal, or even unethical from a business perspective.

    There are far more controversial [theguardian.com] and mainstream examples [bbc.co.uk] of similar activity:

    The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the HSBC story became the focus of attention following the resignation of its chief political commentator Peter Oborne, claiming the paper had deliberately suppressed stories about the banking giant and describing it as a “fraud on its readers”.

    This story is not a alleging a criminal conspiracy that lawyers might be interested in, it's an editorial decision or non-decision that merits a discussion.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:13PM (#191230)

    Actually, when SF editors hijacked the account and locked out the previous maintainer of the code, that could definitely be seen as an act of fraud, and does act against DHI Group Inc's ethics policy. (Section IX specifically)
    "No employee, officer or director should take unfair advantage of anyone through illegal conduct, manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts or any other unfair-dealing practice. "

    https://8ch.net/sourcefraud/catalog.html [8ch.net]