Sourceforge goes proprietary, again
Catching up with Evan’s blog (is that even a word? and please, don’t ask me what day he posted, he’s using some sort of alien calendar technology), I found out sourceforge commits another faux-pas, not too surprisingly. They are giving wikis to all open source software projects that need one, but what do they pick for their engine? Some proprietary crap (honestly, I don’t know that it’s crap, not going to bother finding out either). Actually, this is a deal with wikispaces.com (never heard of them). Why am I not surprised? Well, Sourceforge itself used to be free software, back in the day, but they changed that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, eat your own dogfood.
At least there are a few options to host open source projects these days, all of which are actually using free software / open source software. Here’s a short list:
- alioth
- berlios
- dotsrc
- Freepository
- gForge
- Gna!
- iBiblio
- Javaforge
- Rubyforge
- Savannah
- Sourcefubar
- SEUL
- Tigris
- Tux Family
Here’s another list comparing various
free / open source software project hosting solutions.
That sucks. Personally I like the other ones better…must be a coincidence that the free-er they are the better they are. Sourceforge takes hours to load even on a broadband connection. Even the advertising (which I can understand…) takes a quarter of the page.
Long live free software =]
Comment by icez — 2007/07/08 @ 15:03
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities needs work. I just added a “runs on all free software” column.
Comment by Mike Linksvayer — 2007/07/09 @ 00:54
Thanks for the hint/tip, Mike.
Comment by Robin — 2007/07/09 @ 01:01