I agree that that particular meme is of little value. However, if a project hosting site begins and continues to wrap project-provided installers with the site's own mal/spyware-delivering installer, whatever good will that site built up over the years is very rapidly burned away.
> I've had to click through more "attack site warning" pages in the past month...
You had to click through those "attack site warning" warnings because Sourceforge wasservingmalware(!!), not because of community backlash.
> Google have silently dropped SF from their blacklist...
I haven't checked, but that would probably be because SF.net decided to stop serving malware.
> ...someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling...
And when that day comes, folks will no longer recommend Github for project hosting.
Dice's holding company completely failed to understand the nature of the community that Sourceforge served, and tried to increase revenue by attacking their customer's computers, rather than by hiring folks to rework and redesign the site, add new services, and remove any rough edges on the existing ones.
> I've had to click through more "attack site warning" pages in the past month...
You had to click through those "attack site warning" warnings because Sourceforge was serving malware(!!), not because of community backlash.
> Google have silently dropped SF from their blacklist...
I haven't checked, but that would probably be because SF.net decided to stop serving malware.
> ...someday GH will also exhaust its natural growth and start more aggressive upselling...
And when that day comes, folks will no longer recommend Github for project hosting.
Dice's holding company completely failed to understand the nature of the community that Sourceforge served, and tried to increase revenue by attacking their customer's computers, rather than by hiring folks to rework and redesign the site, add new services, and remove any rough edges on the existing ones.