sourceforge

Buying SourceForge and apply a svn-to-git converter on top of everything; that would really cement the monopoly.

The way sourceforge has gone down the toilet, they'd* have to pay me to take it of their hands!

To say sourceforge is in a category closer to them than to github is ridiculous.

Google Code went away, and Sourceforge started packaging adware and spyware with other people's projects.

If done right a SourceForge relaunch could be a success.

I wonder what the sourceforge guys are making of this right now.

That's the one thing on SourceForge that I'm having trouble migrating elsewhere.

Github can improve even though it's not sourceforge.

Well, they could buy Sourceforge and Slashdot.

I wouldn't give $50 for sourceforge at this point.

And i don't see sourceforge as being comparable unless you just look at a project hosting in it's most basic form in which Google Drive or Dropbox can also fit in that category.

>in which Google Drive or Dropbox can also fit in that category Sourceforge offered shell access for SVN; Google drive and dropbox wouldn't support branching, merging etc.

They're this generation's SourceForge and "feminist" backed shitstorms against them are likely posing a considerable risk to their brand.

If Microsoft did want to compete in that "social coding" space and not just enterprise ALM, purchasing SourceForge to "seed" VSO with a bunch of (semi-)active repositories wouldn't be out of the question, would it?

GitHub censoring content means they are not a neutral platform for hosting public repositories and they are showing their potential for becoming the next Sourceforge.

Sourceforge had this kind of play at one point and look at it now.

It's worth noting that 10 years ago, this same statement was true of Sourceforge.