I see no reason not to use sourceforge just because some of
their back-end systems are non-open source. Sourceforge
made a business decision. It doesn't change what they do.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that open source is at it's
best when it works hand-in-hand with closed source software.
Examples:
Gimp on windows
Linux Perl chatting with Microsoft Sql
Amanda backing up windows webservers
(my personal favorite) Cisco routers authenticating against
not-free but open source radiator radius speaking Ldap to a
windows 2000 domain.
-ejay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Brent
Fulgham
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:30 AM
> To: Aaron Sloman
> Cc: pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Is sourceforge safe for the openpoplog
project?
>
> On 2004-10-13 17:51:31 -0700 Aaron Sloman
<A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if continuing to rely on sourceforge for the
open poplog
> > project
> >
> >
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/openpoplog.html
> >
> > is a good idea, if this article is to be believed:
> >
> >
http://fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html
> >
> > E.g. here's an extract:
>
> Well, it's true that Sourceforge is now DB2-backed (as
opposed to
> MySQL or whatever
> it used to use). This is probably more an effort on VA's
part to
> appeal to the
> "Enterprise" clients they want to sell Sourceforge to that
some
> nefarious plot to
> destroy free software. VA Systems has been a big
supporter of Debian
> for many
> years, and there are still many Debian developers employed
there full
> time.
>
> However, there are several fully Free Software
alternatives
> that could
> be used
> to host the project. These are based on GForce, a fork of
Souceforge
> created
> prior to the recent unpleasantness:
>
> 1. Alioth (Debian's Gforge system):
>
> http://alioth.debian.org
>
> 2. GNU Savannah (GForge System):
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org
>
> Either of these sites would be more than happy to host
Poplog.
>
> -Brent
>
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