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Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog — ... has long wanted the Linux.com domain name for obvious reasons. For a long time SourceForge , formerly VA Linux Systems, kept the site, but the company has now sold Linux.com to the Foundation. Sources close to the deal say that the deal was made because, -- an all too familiar story these days -- the company needed the money. SourceForge, had, in addition to its well-known ...

SourceForge Commits to Git, Bazaar and Mercurial Support
OStatic blogs — ... The sites and services existing under the SourceForge umbrella have experienced some significant changes in the past several months. In the first three months of 2009, we've seen management changes and the ...

SourceForge Commits to Git, Bazaar and Mercurial Support [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... The sites and services existing under the SourceForge umbrella have experienced some significant changes in the past several months. In the first three months of 2009, we've seen management changes and the ...

The Linux Foundation Unveils and Re-Launches Linux.com [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... There's one little domain name out there that's had a wild ride this year. In January, a rather cryptic post went up on Linux.com, a SourceForge web property, that updates had been slowing -- and were as of that point ceasing -- because changes were in the works. Then came the silence on the wire. ...

The Linux Foundation Unveils and Re-Launches Linux.com
OStatic blogs — ... There's one little domain name out there that's had a wild ride this year. In January, a rather cryptic post went up on Linux.com, a SourceForge web property, that said updates had been slowing -- and were as of that point ceasing -- because changes were in the works. Then came the silence on the wire. ...

SourceForge acquires Ohloh to target ads at open source coders
VentureBeat — SourceForge, the public company whose properties include code repository SourceForge.net and tech news site Slashdot, announced today that it’s acquiring Ohloh, a community and database for open source programmers. This is SourceForge’s first acquisition since 2000. Bellevue, Wash.-based Ohloh says it has compiled the world’s largest directory of open source projects and coders (more than 300,000 each, gathered from 3,500 websites). Ohloh also ranks those coders based on the importance of their contributions to major open ...

Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom
ReadWriteWeb — To most people, the term "open source" immediately conjures an image of two geeks sitting in a dark room (probably a basement) -- curtains drawn, McDonald's remains strewn across the desk, and 42 oz sodas within arms' reach -- coding away at their computers, listening to Linkin Park or a game soundtrack. People automatically associate it with endless lines of code, back-end technology, server rooms, computer science labs, and experimental (read: unsafe and buggy) technology. In reality, open-source software provides stable solutions, created by people and for people and used by companies of all ...