loganabbott

Publishing wrong information is wrong.

That is correct. We informed SF Conservancy about this but they are so far unwilling to correct it.

Most people have gotten the message that things have changed at SourceForge. We bought it to redeem the name and protect free open source software.

Nope it's still free and has always been free. And it's built on Apache Allura which is open source.

Huh? Still completely free

Hi, president of SourceForge here. Glad this is trending, albeit a few months later. These articles seem to trend on HN every few months, with many people not realizing SourceForge changed ownership in 2016 and that the new team's been working hard on improving.

To be clear, we had nothing to do with the bundled adware decisions of 2015, and when we took over in 2016, the first thing we did was remove the bundled adware, as well as institute malware scans for every project on the site.

We're working hard to restore trust, so if we win some of you back that would be cool. However, we're just focused on doing right by our million daily users.

We lost a few hours of commits and notified everyone affected. That's it.

This blog post is not accurate at all.

Thanks for the input. I am not trying to be insulting to anyone here. If it came off that way, I apologize. I am just, maybe too frustratingly, trying to get the point across that we are not the same as the previous owners. I understand why the name might confuse people though.

My point was not to be insulting, it was to draw attention to the fact that I don't know this person, just like most people don't know what's going on behind the scenes at SourceForge, or just how healthy we are as a company.