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Bye bye Sourceforge

Posted on | January 21, 2008 | No Comments

Today I received the following in a footer from the OpenSSI development mailing list, hosted at Sourceforge:

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This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/

vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
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Is it *absolutely* necessary to promote the biggest patent fiends in history to your user base if you want to host your project at sourceforge?

If they want to show Microsoft banners , so be it, I can block those out or put up with them. What I don’t like, at all, is GPL project discussion lists sending out ads promoting the very company that’s trying to eliminate free software to users and developers.

Maybe I’m just a cranky dinosaur, but that really seems .. well, mindless.

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