On Tuesday 16 June 2015 03:39:48 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.06.15 13:54, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > Are you sure you're not confusing GitHub with SourceForge? There was > > a recent brouhaha with SF downloads of several projects. > > > > > This is not a tasty turn of events since github changed hands a > > > while back. > > > > Yup, that's probably Sourceforge---I don't think GitHub changed > > corporate structure, and it's not that old anyway, unlike > > Sourceforge which dates back a while. > > Yes, the only thing I've read on it recently is: > > http://fossforce.com/2015/06/sourceforge-not-making-a-graceful-exit/ > > and it paints GitHub as the lifeboat. > > As I see it, they can't hijack GPLed code into private ownership, but > anyone can copy it, host it freely wherever, and the FOSS community > sails on blithely on the familiar course. Whether the pirates call > that a fork, or we call theirs something else, is hot air about roses. > > Yes, the suits can make us pay for on-line newspapers now, but our > code is not theirs to exploit, so long as we can find an alternative > hosting site. In extremis, projects might have to host their own, or > we might have to chip in a little now and then, as for wikipedia. > > In time, the suits will then realise that buying a Sourceforge is > buying an empty barn built on a bog.
I hope they paid waaay too much. I guess that's one way they might learn a lesson, if the recognize it for the lesson it is. But I'd bet a box of donuts for the non-diabetic folks here, some of that money was M$ money. ;-) Bill and Paul have enough that whatever was paid for sourceforge is just pocket change. And its the main reason I host my own meager efforts right here on this machine. I have been a fan of the TRS-80 Color Computer since the 80's, and an os9/nitros9 author since the late 80's. Its been one hell of a teacher as os9/nitros9 is a pretty full blown unix workalike that can run on any 6x09 based machine with 64k of ram, fully multiuser/multitasking (until it runs out of memory for the user, but the way os9 level 2 maps memory, I have a whopping 2 megabytes in mine.) 100% community supported today, and one fellow is running a web server from his machine. Written in basic09. So I effectively have one leg back in Jurrasic times computerwise. :) There's a lurker here I think, who is running his small home made milling machine with a "coco". He built all the motor drivers & interfacing hardware for it. I'll let him speak up when he is ready. > Erik > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
