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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: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:53AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:53AM (#197686) Journal

    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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