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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long,-suckers dept.

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: 5, Interesting) by Freeman on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:52PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:52PM (#197398) Journal

    It's not too surprising as the issues with SourceForge were news to me. I had been using it off and on for a long time. It's kind of sad to see it being destroyed. Even, if they backtrack. What's stopping them from doing the same thing again? Nothing. I could deal with the advertisements, so long as they weren't too obtrusive. When you start tacking on crap to my download, it's time to move on, and never, ever, ever, ever, deal with the organization again. There has been a consistent theme of corporations screwing their customer base in recent years. Kind of hard to find a Non-Evil Corporation these days. You used to be able to at somewhat trust them to just be incompetent as opposed to outright evil.

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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:30PM

    by mtrycz (60) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:30PM (#197420)

    I so hope that Mozilla will stay true to its former self...

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:37PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:37PM (#197425) Homepage

      Pfffft, if Firefox is any indication of their status, they're fucked - although they're more of a ubuntu-unity-wannabe fucking steve jobs kinda situation.

      • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:45PM

        by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:45PM (#197517) Journal

        What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jummama on Wednesday June 17 2015, @09:00PM

          by jummama (3969) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @09:00PM (#197530)

          I've been using Pale Moon https://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org], a fork of Firefox without the Australis garbage. Works great for me!

          • (Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:38PM

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:38PM (#197577) Homepage

            I'd like to be rah-rah about this but the Pale Moon install fatally terminated on both my radically different Windoze boxes.

            • (Score: 1) by darnkitten on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:57PM

              by darnkitten (1912) on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:57PM (#197600)

              That's too bad--I've had no problems with install (except when the main branch stopped supporting xp), and I have it running on 10, no, 11 Win setups, from xp(x86) to win7(x64). Are you using the installer, or the stand-alone file? ...and have you tried the portable version?

              OTOH, I've never been able to get the Linux build to function, so I keep modifying Firefox to act like Pale Moon on my Linux boxes...and Mozilla keeps reverting my changes every other "upgrade."

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:02PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:02PM (#197581)

            I wish I could, but there's no OSX build and I'm tired of beta testing.

        • (Score: 2, Informative) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:38AM

          by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:38AM (#197695)

          What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.

          Seamonkey [seamonkey-project.org] does a pretty good job if you don't mind using a suite instead of a simple browser.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:47PM

          by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:47PM (#197800) Journal

          IMHO the best of the alternatives are, in no particular order is Pale Moon [palemoon.org] (personally use, great browser based on FF without the BS) Comodo Chromodo [cnet.com] (also use, based on Chromium with some nice extra security features) Comodo IceDragon [comodo.com] (give this one to customers who want simple and hate change as their UI is pretty static and its rock solid) Comodo Dragon [comodo.com] (like IceDragon this is for those that hate change as they update the engine while keeping the UI static) Waterfox [waterfoxproject.org] (64bit only Gecko based focused on speed) and for those that need the lightest browser around? That would be Kmeleon [sourceforge.net] which sadly is only hosted on SF so be careful.

          Any of those will give you a good browsing experience, my personal browsers are Chromodo (with ABP and Privacy Badger installed) with Pale Moon (with ABP) but any of the above should give you a solid dependable browser, it is all personal preference now really. If you strictly want Gecko over Webkit based Pale Moon, Waterfox, and IceDragon are all really solid, I simply prefer the UI of PM over the others but try 'em all and see what fits YOU the best. This is one thing kids today take for granted, I remember when it was nothing but shitty IE, buggy Netscape, or ad laden and quirky as hell Opera....we have its soooo much better now!

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  • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:58PM

    by arulatas (3600) on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:58PM (#197980)

    It's not too surprising as the issues with SourceForge were news to me. I had been using it off and on for a long time. It's kind of sad to see it being destroyed. Even, if they backtrack. What's stopping them from doing the same thing again? Nothing. I could deal with the advertisements, so long as they weren't too obtrusive. When you start tacking on crap to my download, it's time to move on, and never, ever, ever, ever, deal with the organization again. There has been a consistent theme of corporations screwing their customer base in recent years. Kind of hard to find a Non-Evil Corporation these days. You used to be able to at somewhat trust them to just be incompetent as opposed to outright evil.

    I read that as START TAKING A CRAP

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    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:03PM

      by Freeman (732) on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:03PM (#198018) Journal

      That would work too, if the next word was on instead of to.

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      • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Friday June 19 2015, @01:39PM

        by arulatas (3600) on Friday June 19 2015, @01:39PM (#198215)

        What the next word is doesn't change what I first misread it to say.

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