Sourceforge's owners VA (formerly VA Linux) are going to regret the choices
they made, mostly because of the realities of the support they had.  They
chose to close the source, in an effort to make money (selling corp version
of SF), but I really think they neglected to look longer term at the
psychological effect on the very people they were counting on for the long
term.  It will be very hard for SF to sell a solution seen as a failure when
people leave in droves.

I'm on the PHPGroupware list, and I can tell you this was brewing LONG
before it went 'public'.  Months ago in fact.  PHPGW had some seriously
complaints and concerns, and as one of the most active projects, they were
entitled to some level of response.  They weren't getting it, and it was
clear the seeds were sown.

Loic who runs Savannah (the GNU version of SF, where PHPGW (among others) is
moving, will be using PHPGW heavily on the new site...

Think of it as a Fork.  Forks are good things.

Seth


> Sad but inevitable.
>
> Note: Sourceforge is not going away but they are becoming more closed

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