loganabbott

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by loganabbott 4y ago
Publishing wrong information is wrong.
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by loganabbott 4y ago
That is correct. We informed SF Conservancy about this but they are so far unwilling to correct it.
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by loganabbott 4y ago
SourceForge CEO here. The first paragraph of this article is wrong. SourceForge has been built on Apache Allura since 2011. https://allura.apache.org
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by loganabbott 7y ago
Most people have gotten the message that things have changed at SourceForge. We bought it to redeem the name and protect free open source software.
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by loganabbott 7y ago
We're a small independently owned private company, and not a single person responsible for those decisions made years ago is still involved with the company. It's been over 3 years since we bought SourceForge and we reversed all t
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by loganabbott 7y ago
SourceForge still supports Mercurial https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mercurial/#pub...
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Nope it's still free and has always been free. And it's built on Apache Allura which is open source.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Huh? Still completely free
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Hi, president of SourceForge here. Glad this is trending, albeit a few months later. These articles seem to trend on HN every few months, with many people not realizing SourceForge changed ownership in 2016 and that the new team's been
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by loganabbott 8y ago
We lost a few hours of commits and notified everyone affected. That's it.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
FYI the SourceForge version of FileZilla is clean, and has been since 2016. The official FileZilla installer has been doing this for some time now though. In case people don’t know, a lot has changed at SourceForge since my company acquired
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by loganabbott 8y ago
This blog post is not accurate at all.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
FYI the SourceForge version of FileZilla is clean, and has been since 2016. The official FileZilla installer has been doing this for some time now though. In case people don’t know, a lot has changed at SourceForge since my company acquired
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks for the input. I am not trying to be insulting to anyone here. If it came off that way, I apologize. I am just, maybe too frustratingly, trying to get the point across that we are not the same as the previous owners. I understand why
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by loganabbott 8y ago
My point was not to be insulting, it was to draw attention to the fact that I don't know this person, just like most people don't know what's going on behind the scenes at SourceForge, or just how healthy we are as a company.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Sorry if my comments rubbed you the wrong way, but it's a bit frustrating when these threads pop up weekly, and people feel like it's open license to attack me and my company. We really are doing our best to make SourceForge a tru
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Well I do appreciate the feedback and valid questions. I will be putting some thought into it.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
I'm not frustrated, but these threads show up on HN almost weekly now, with armchair quarterbacks who really are not current on the state of open source opining ill informed opinions. They even know we are new owners who immediately ki
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
I don't think "attacking" means what you think it means. Why do you keep posting the same comment over and over?
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Man, the definition of the word "attack" has really changed recently.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Our agenda was removing bundled adware and improving user experience. Mystery solved.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks. Yep we killed the bundled adware and fake download buttons on DAY ONE. Nice to hear that at least some people understand that.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thank you for being reasonable
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by loganabbott 8y ago
That just tells me your breadth of knowledge of the open source landscape is limited. You can scroll down this thread to see plenty of big projects still at SourceForge.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
That doesn't really make any sense today though.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Other than these uninformed HN threads, most people can distinguish between the owners that did the bad stuff, and the owners that bought it specifically to undo the bad stuff.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
No malware issues since 2016 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
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by loganabbott 8y ago
My company had nothing to do with it, but it's worth noting you're one of the few people who actually remembers the actual non-revisionist history.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Why would you feel bad for us? We removed the malpractices right away, became profitable, improved the experience for over a million daily users, and are growing at a rate not seen since before the problems. I'd say we have the opposit

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