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I'm sorry guys at VA (Larry Augustine is an ass who sues people. Look up the OpenVista lawsuit for reference where he sued some of my friends) but if you want to be new and hip, buy github and dump the sourceforge brand. It was great once upon a time, but simply doesn't offer what developers are looking for. As a casual open source dev myself, if I saw a _new_ project using sourceforge, I'd hold it against them. Why? The sourceforge mailing list archive web ui is beyond terrible and dealing with the ads and terrible navigation make it waste my time. Sorry, but a pretty face won't save market share.


Dice.com owns SourceForge now. For a chronology, see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet#Geeknet

Dice Holdings (DHX) market cap is ~560m. GitHub is almost certainly worth more, growing like crazy, and generally almost finished with making SF irrelevant.


Oh duh, I'd forgotten about that. One up vote for you sir! Thanks




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