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Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Black Duck Software has announced the acquisition of the Ohloh.net site from Geeknet. "Black Duck plans to use the acquisition to help enhance and expand FOSS adoption by making it easier for developers to tap the huge body of high-quality code in open source projects, and collaborate with their peers through the Ohloh community. By working with the FOSS community, including forges, foundations and other code repositories as well as individual projects and developers, Black Duck will expand and enrich Ohloh with improved data and new productivity tools. Black Duck will integrate Ohloh assets with Black Duck's free code search site Koders.com, and will infuse it with a complete set of FOSS project data from Black Duck's comprehensive KnowledgeBase, to create a single premier web destination that developers can turn to as a trusted source of FOSS knowledge."

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Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Posted Oct 5, 2010 20:01 UTC (Tue) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link] (1 responses)

So, creeping Facebookification of the FOSS world, anyone?

I find it disturbing that the networking information is becoming a trade asset, doubly so when these guys enter our world.

Think about it, Google pays Twitter for direct access to its information, so as to avoid the much more difficult web crawling way.

Now, how are we supposed to like the idea that BlackDuck will someday sell direct access to the FOSS networking information to some groups, like, say, headhunters?

Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Posted Oct 6, 2010 4:39 UTC (Wed) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749) [Link]

Headhunters are already scraping FOSS sites to build DBs of developers. I got an email from one recently, saying I could "complete my profile". Turns out they had found my commits to rubyforge and sourceforge projects, and built a profile of my involvement, and wanted me to start using their site to publish myself to prospective employers.

Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Posted Oct 5, 2010 20:37 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link] (3 responses)

I received an email about this, being an Ohloh user. They called me
Dear Ohloh Community Member,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Posted Oct 5, 2010 21:20 UTC (Tue) by TeDiouS (guest, #67602) [Link] (1 responses)

The "<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> " part seems suspicious...

Black Duck acquires Ohloh

Posted Oct 5, 2010 21:32 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I received the message too, and it really is fubar.

You can see it in my spam trap (log in as demo/demo).

Dear Ohloh Community Member

Posted Oct 7, 2010 12:28 UTC (Thu) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link]

Enjoy it!

;-)


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