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:
Because of the convenience of SourceForge, many Free Software
developers have come to take this collection of features for
granted, and would be reluctant to go back to the old way of
doing things. Unfortunately, this means that when SourceForge
itself takes a turn for the worse, it tends to pull Free
Software developers down with it.
The second important thing SourceForge did was to provide
this environment based exclusively on [11]Free Software. By
doing this, SourceForge not only provided a powerful
methodology for the Free Software community, it also
demonstrated what Free Software could do, and promoted the
use of Free Software. And since the special software for
SourceForge was itself free, anyone could set up a similar
site. The SourceForge software became permanently available
to developers everywhere. Developers in (say) India who can't
afford the bandwidth to use the SourceForge site could have
the benefit of the same features on their own server.
In August 2001, VA Linux reversed those policies and
introduced non-free software on the SourceForge server. In
[12]announcing this (the original document was removed or
moved shortly after the publication of this article), Larry
Augustin (VA Linux CEO) claims that SourceForge.net users
will "see virtually no changes". That may be true if they
narrow their vision and consider only what job the site does
and how to operate it. But when we consider the implications,
things are very different now. Instead of a showcase for Free
Software, SourceForge is now a demo site for non-free
software. There is a danger that the many thousands of people
registered on SourceForge will become increasingly hooked on
the SourceForge site and on features implemented by
proprietary software.
....
and it lists other worrying points.
Aaron
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