On: How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen

[ck2]

What might be really dangerous is I think they also run rpmforge (aka repoforge) and many people use them on servers for yum updates as they have newer packages sometimes.

If they start messing with the releases for servers, we've got big problems.

Wait, no I might be wrong about this, I really thought they were related but rpmforge might be a completely different project.

Yeah I am probably wrong based on this old page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060208035034/http://rpmforge.ne...

They just re-used the "forge" name which fine but confused me and I guess I assumed it was run by sourceforge awhile back.

Sourgeforge however is owned by Slashdot's parent company, of that I am virtually positive.

[hkmurakami → ck2]

That parent company would be GeekNet, Inc. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=GKNT+Profile

[Zirro → hkmurakami]

"In September 2012, Dice Holdings acquired SourceForge from its previous owner Geeknet" says Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Acquisition

[cothomps → Zirro]

Correct - the various companies have been re-orged into a slightly separate entity called "Slashdot Media":

http://slashdotmedia.com

[eterm → Zirro]

But Slashdot is also listed on the Dice Holdings page.

http://www.diceholdingsinc.com/