SourceForge news

[balloonshark]

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/

SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans

At the end of January, SourceForge and Slashdot were sold to BIZX, LLC by DHI Group, Inc. As the new owners of two iconic sites, we are excited about the future and what we can do together. We’ve already started to take action, and are developing further plans for the site. We encourage your feedback to help us shape the future direction for the site.

Our first order of business was to terminate the “DevShare” program. As of last week, the DevShare program was completely eliminated. The DevShare program delivered installer bundles as part of the download for participating projects. We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We’re more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit. As we move forward, we will be focusing on the needs of our developers and visitors by building out site features and establishing community trust. Eliminating the DevShare program was just the first step of many more to come. Plans for the near future include full https support for both SourceForge and Slashdot, and a lot more changes we think developers and end-users will embrace.

Stay tuned for future announcements about how we’re making SourceForge better for everyone.

Logan Abbott

President

SourceForge Media, LLC

I hope they can turn things around but it may already be too late.

 

[Elixer]

Hope this turns out well, there are a ton of good projects on SourceForge, and trying to reverse the mistakes from the last owners are a huge step forward.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

It is too late. I will never trust them.

 

[Berryracer]

It is too late. I will never trust them.

Ditto, once a bad guy, always a bad guy! I'll never touch any software that's hosted on that malware piece of trash site!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I pretty much lost my trust in them too, and a buyout wont change that, if anything it might make it worse, buyouts are typically because the buyer sees a potential at making money, not to make it better, so they'll probably make it even worse in the process. Of course that's not always the case but seems to often be. A prime example is when Google bought Youtube. It pretty much went south from that point.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Wow...I'm catching up on old news. I dropped out of mainstream IT last year when I switched jobs and had my old stash of software, so I hadn't seen how bad things got on Sourceforge.

http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don’t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/

I always respected SourceForge in the early 2000s for being a great place for projects to thrive. I didn't expect it to last forever, but haven't exactly been doing much with open source applications in the past 5 years either.