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SourceForge, a media services and e-commerce company that provides open source software downloads and development, is enjoying the best of both business worlds. It is one of the largest open source software repositories -- the SourceForge Web site has more than 30 million unique visitors per month -- and it reported more than $40 million in earnings for its last quarter, with no outstanding debt. Still, the company has no desire to rest on its laurels. Instead, it is pressing ahead with a makeover to become more useful to the open source community.
While SourceForge has been a staple for FOSS distribution, they are less than accommodating for hosting new projects. Several projects I have requested to host their have been rejected with some terse response like "you just want to use us as a repository". Hmm, source code repository, uh, ya! Once they reject, there's no recourse, no discussion, nothing! It's like trying to get a 5 year old to eat their vegetables. The same happens with slashdot. Slashdot is to the technology news community as Fox news is to non-biased news reporting.
