[TriLUG] I thought that sourceforge was for open SOURCE!?!

[Jim Wright]

sourceforge.net run by ostg...same as slashdot...ostg is owned by VA
Software.  given the number of M$ ads that there on /., I don't think their
advertising salespeople are very discriminating.
They are not "raising funds"...they are "selling advertising to make money".


On 12/2/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So today I get the occasional "update" mailing from sourceforge.net
> and I was a little surprised by the contents.
>
> The first item was effectively an ad for splunk, complete with a
> click-through ad link to splunk.com.  Now while I've looked at, and
> have been intriqued by this log analysis 'system', I haven't
> downloaded it because of it's decidedly non-free license
> http://www.splunk.com/index.php/articles/news/66  They only distribute
> binaries,
>
> I'd love to have this kind of function, but I'd really prefer to have
> something which is published under an open source license, and I DON"T
> want to accept their download agreement.
>
> I guess that sourceforge.net can do what they want to raise funds, but
> for some reason this just doesn't taste right to me.
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> Rick DeNatale
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