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SourceForge adopts eBay-like sales model for open-source software (Linux-Watch)

[Posted December 6, 2007 by cook]

Linux-Watch covers the launch of SourceForge.net Marketplace. "SourceForge.net, with millions of monthly visitors, is already one of the world's largest Web sites for open-source development and distribution. What it didn't have, though, was any way for its uses to cash in on their open-source projects. On Dec. 6, that changed forever. Today, SourceForge launched an online marketplace for technology professionals to buy and sell service and support for open-source software."

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Posted Dec 6, 2007 19:39 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

<rant>Why is it that people feel it's necessary to be melodramatic and announce that things
have changed "forever"?  They could change their minds and turn the marketplace system off
tomorrow.  The PR hacks are taking over the asylum...</rant>

SourceForge adopts eBay-like sales model for open-source software (Linux-Watch)

Posted Dec 7, 2007 3:09 UTC (Fri) by 3vi1 (guest, #39830) [Link]

/agree

If there were a mod system, I'd mod you up.

I wish them the best of luck though, as I like the services they provide and would like to see
them continue.