This is a boring meme that needs to die in a fire. SourceForge have taken a few missteps in recent months (and received plenty of flak for it), but it's been a reliable environment for open source development going on nearly 16 years. Note despite the silliness around their download system, repositories, lists and site hosting still function as they always did.
As a result of the community backlash against SF's download wrapper, I've had to click through more "attack site warning" pages in the past month just to reach some valuable SourceForge project (of which there are many thousands) than possibly all the previous year combined, though I notice in the past few weeks, Google have silently dropped SF from their blacklist (no PR fanfare this time however).
People continually use GitHub as some bastion of how things should be done, but someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling (regardless of their existing business model), quite possibly under a different management after the founders have all left for greener pastures. It's not a question of if that will happen, but when. Maybe in 16 years time? Who knows. It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet, but if it can happen at the second most valuable company in the tech industry, it can easily happen to a smaller company like Atlassian or GH.
As a result of the community backlash against SF's download wrapper, I've had to click through more "attack site warning" pages in the past month just to reach some valuable SourceForge project (of which there are many thousands) than possibly all the previous year combined, though I notice in the past few weeks, Google have silently dropped SF from their blacklist (no PR fanfare this time however).
People continually use GitHub as some bastion of how things should be done, but someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling (regardless of their existing business model), quite possibly under a different management after the founders have all left for greener pastures. It's not a question of if that will happen, but when. Maybe in 16 years time? Who knows. It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet, but if it can happen at the second most valuable company in the tech industry, it can easily happen to a smaller company like Atlassian or GH.