<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">So sad when short-term thinking takes over.</span><div><br></div><div>They never had a good long term monetization strategy other than eyeballs. IMHO this isn't short term thinking, it's "let's extract as much revenue as possible by any means necessary or shut this pig down" There's no long game for them anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>SF were pioneers, but the world changed to more collaborative, distributed development. People want tools that make work a pleasure and increase communication. GitHub and BitBucket provide those, plus have a long term revenue stream with businesses, not individual developers. Companies, including my client, pay several digit sums a year to GitHub because the software is good. I could never see anyone saying the same thing about SourceForge.</div><div><br></div><div>Sean</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Gilles Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca" target="_blank">grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have any of you heard about SourceForge's recent takeover/highjacking of GIMP for Windows and Nmap? This was a bit of a shocker to me. It seems to be a way of forcing the inclusion of adware in downloads, for popular projects that don't agree to it.<br>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe</a> - GIMP<br>
<a href="http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194" target="_blank">http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194</a> - Nmap<br>
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The beginning of the end for a former open source champion? So sad when short-term thinking takes over.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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