When selling a site means selling a community (Opensource.com)

In the first of two parts Opensource.com talks with Frank Karlitschek about the sale of his network of more than 30 community sites to Blue Systems. "Although he doesn't know much about the future plans Blue Systems has for the websites, Karlitschek says the new owner is interested in continuing to run the websites and develop them in a direction that makes sense for the users and the ecosystem."

Part 2 looks at the SourceForge and Slashdot communities and how the different owners have interacted with them. "[Logan] Abbott got off on the right foot with open source developers with his SourceForge post in early February, SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans. "Our first order of business was to terminate the 'DevShare' program," he wrote. " ... We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We're more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit," he added."

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