Anyone here old enough to remember when SourceForge was The Place(tm) to stick OSS code and then how it fell from grace?
I’m curious in what ways the MicroSoft take over of GitHub is and is not starting to feel like that.
For me, one is just the difference in scale. GitHub is vast in both content as well as tooling compared to SourceForge at it’s highest points. And a commercial entity orders of magnitude smaller than MicroSoft took over SF. The rate of descent into Not Good(tm) territory also seems slower and more ponderous.
But while the magnitudes differ, the vectors look similar. Not exactly the same, because history rhymes with itself before it repeats itself.
Curious what other similarities and dissimilarities other old timers see.
I’m curious in what ways the MicroSoft take over of GitHub is and is not starting to feel like that.
For me, one is just the difference in scale. GitHub is vast in both content as well as tooling compared to SourceForge at it’s highest points. And a commercial entity orders of magnitude smaller than MicroSoft took over SF. The rate of descent into Not Good(tm) territory also seems slower and more ponderous.
But while the magnitudes differ, the vectors look similar. Not exactly the same, because history rhymes with itself before it repeats itself.
Curious what other similarities and dissimilarities other old timers see.