SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net 79
SourceForge, Inc. (parent company of Slashdot, and the corporate overlord of SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek) announced today plans to purchase Ohloh, a three-year-old Seattle company that runs Ohloh.net, a software-development portal that specializes in the community aspects of distributed open source projects. The purchase will probably be final as of next month. (I hope no one requires that I show up to an office, just because one will be nearby.)
Ohloh's programming language chart is nice... (Score:3, Interesting)
...it shows a breakdown of commits by language [ohloh.net]; interesting stuff. Of course, the sample is limited to the projects they're tracking, and the metric - number of commits - is affected by the source code mgmt tool's idioms. Still, nice AJAXy-ness.
Re:I love slashdot, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Interesting)
so what happens when a site known for its great features and well-designed user-interface gets bought by a company with a phobia of both things?
Re:Not a Good Thing (Score:3, Interesting)
Then again, I am an eternal optimist that likes to hope for the best, you don't gain anything by ignoring the best or the worst, but if you plan for rainy days but hope you never have to use the plan, you can sleep at night without nightmares.
Just curious .. (Score:4, Interesting)
Where are their servers located ? .. would be interesting to know, due to various regional annoyances such as the DMCA, opposition to open versions of DeCSS etc.