[Info-vax] SourceForge, was: Re: Using VMS for a web server

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Thu Jun 4 08:01:27 EDT 2015


On 2015-06-04, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
wrote:
> On 2015-06-04, terry+googleblog at tmk.com <terry+googleblog at tmk.com> wrote:
>>
>> BTW, SF and Slashdot are owned by the same holding company (DHI)
>> which makes it amusing that this story broke on Slashdot.
>
> Actually the initial story broke elsewhere and Slashdot suppressed story
> submissions about it for several days until the tide of anger among the
> Slashdot community was so large they couldn't do that any more.
>
> It's only now that Slashdot are giving full coverage to these events.

Ars Technica from a couple of days ago:

<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/sourceforge-locked-in-projects-of-fleeing-users-cashed-in-on-malvertising/>

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