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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, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:09PM
Note that if you use real world GAAP accounting principles, dice holdings is worth $400M of which sourceforge is likely a very small part. If you use VC accounting principles, github is worth $2000M. I'm not sure which is actually worth more real dollars.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darnkitten on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:13AM
...And if they were using Hollywood accounting principles, it wouldn't matter how much it was worth, it would show $0 on paper, so they wouldn't have to pay back their investors.