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In light of the recent activities of Dice Holdings trying to monetize the website it purchased in September 2012, Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
The admin of the popular NotePad++ text editor announced [June 15] that the project would leave SourceForge
[...] The project will use Github as the development hub for Notepad++ exclusively.
[...] tmux, nmap, [and] VLC for instance [are also trying] to get Sourceforge to remove [their] projects from the site
In the comments, Oxa June notes that Pale Moon is looking to move away.
In addition, Softpedia notes that WINE is migrating away.
Related: SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware
Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice-Owned SourceForge
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:09PM
But i hope they don't leave the sourceforge projects inactive for the simple reason that they will get taken by SF Mods and bastardized. Please pretend like your still using sourceforge and clearly post a statement that no one should ever download anything from SF on your project site
(Score: 3, Insightful) by penguinoid on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:19PM
But i hope they don't leave the sourceforge projects inactive for the simple reason that they will get taken by SF Mods and bastardized.
It's OK. Sourceforge can have it's chain reaction of people abandoning the disreputable site and the disreputable site doing all they can to suck the last bit of money out of it before it's gone for good. A site composed entirely of malware is no threat, because then there's no reason for anyone to go there. It will be replaced, and won't be missed.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:48PM
There's a lot of lingering trust in the SourceForge brand and hyperlinks to the site. So a malware hellhole or whatever you want to call what they're doing is not good for uninformed users (VLC has had almost 896 million downloads on SourceForge, Notepad++ has had over 29 million).
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:05PM
Jesus, it's sad. It's like watching a good friend die of brain cancer.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:08PM
At least we can preserve the "memories" (code).
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:49PM
Seriously though, if it hasn't already been done there, somebody needs to write a script to archive the website, or get someone to leak the sourceforge project db, or ideally, backups from the CVS, SVN, and GIT codebase migrations. There are a lot of projects that were on there that have been lost to the depths of internet history and many fixes and descriptions of gotchas for code dating back to the pre-millenial era of the internet.
This stuff needs to be preserved so someday it will be available to those researching the proper operation of legacy codebases, or the software that relied on them.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:24PM
This is a plague that affects not just SF but the Internet in general...know how many times I have looked for a fix to a specific issue with an older piece of hardware to only find out every. single. link. goes back to something like MegaUpload or Rapidshit? Sadly all those "5Mb here, 10Mb there" files add up to some serious storage costs but we really do need a "Wayback Machine" for not just pages but the files they contain,because we are losing a metric shitton of data every year and most of it? Will never be replaced.
I know I'm seriously considering either doing what we used to at the shop I worked at in the 90s, which is fill a case with drives and just download every single driver and fix I think I could possibly use, or use this new BR burner I got to start archiving as many tools and fixes as I can. On that note...anybody have exp with BR? Do they last as long as DVD if stored similarly? Because I'd rather spend $20 a TB on BR discs than have to keep a pile of multi TB drives running in the back sucking up juice.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday June 18 2015, @02:13AM
On that note, is there an existing mirror? If not, methinks it behooves someone with the know-how and resources to make one. (Which, sad to say, is not me.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:36PM
Shows you what's wrong with the concept of blind trust, eh?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:53AM
Blind trust.
I visited SourceForge earlier today to see about a DS-30 loader for PIC microcontrollers. Google pointed me to the SourceForge page, so I went, but the files simply were not available without me taking them as part of an installer. I flat do not want to enable scripting and take anything someone sends me. No way. I used to go to SF all the time to get technical stuff. The last visit was useless. Lots of tease, as if they had it, but lots of tease as in "but we are not going to let you have it".
I wanted to see the files just like I used to see the files, so I could at least read the documentation without having to execute anything.
I guess when some people get their hands on money, this is what they do with it.
First Slashdot. Now SourceForge.
Like Ethanol-Fueled said... sad. I know this thing is going the way of many other things that just aren't here anymore.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:13PM
Except it'll take time before people realize it's the site that's corrupted and not the software. It'll injure the reputations of everything it hosts long before its own wounds are mortal.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:25PM
The search engines can identify it as malware. That get the word out very quickly.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Common Joe on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:50PM
Better idea: Add a "new version" of the code that is only a pop up box explaining why the project abandoned Source Forge and where the project currently is.
(Score: 2) by gman003 on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:06PM
Or take down all downloads from Sourceforge. Leave nothing there but a link to your new site.
If they hijack *that* to serve adware, there's pretty much nothing you can do.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:10PM
(Score: 3, Funny) by Balderdash on Thursday June 18 2015, @02:13AM
Dice Holdings sucks so much cock that other cocksuckres call Dice a dickface and Dice can't even argue.
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