My reading was that VA Linux was maneuvering to:

1) Make the engine that runs the SourceForge site proprietary.

2) Insure that once a project was hosted on SourceForge that it would be 
difficult or impossible to migrate to any other host.

3) Controled a lot of other open source software besides the source forge 
back end.

4) One could thus infer a management shakeup at VA Linux with a resulting 
change in business model that necessitated recapture of open source 
investments by VA Linux.

In other words the VA Linux management is behaving like a pack of 
capitalists.  Shame on them!

Whatever will the shareholders think if VA Linux should actually show a 
profit or pay a dividend?!


On Tuesday 13 November 2001 18:37, you wrote:
> I'm confused.  Does this only affect the software that is running
> Sourceforge, or does it also include the software that is hosted on
> sourceforge?
>

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Trent Shipley
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