“The main reason developers left in the first place was because decisions were made at SourceForge before we owned it that eroded trust among developers and end users.

The new SourceForge owners started cleaning up the site up almost at once. In January 2016, the two sites were sold to web publisher BIZX. The death blow that enraged and alienated many developers came in June 2015, when it was discovered that SourceForge staff started taking over inactive accounts for popular software and adding bundle-ware installers to the packages.Ī month later, the (then) site’s owners – online job site – announced their plan to sell SourceForge and the news website Slashdot. Once the preferred source code repository and distribution platform for free and open source software (FOSS) projects, SourceForge has been blacklisted by many of its former users due to deceptive ads that looked like download buttons and questionable revenue generation schemes. SourceForge is under new ownership and management (again!), and their plan is to return the service to its former glory.

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