How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha
Anyone here old enough to remember when SourceForge was The Place(tm) to stick OSS code and then how it fell from grace?<p>I’m curious in what ways the MicroSoft take over of GitHub is and is not starting to feel like that.<p>For me, one is just the difference in scale. GitHub is vast in both content as well as tooling compared to SourceForge at it’s highest points. And a commercial entity orders of magnitude smaller than MicroSoft took over SF. The rate of descent into Not Good(tm) territory also seems slower and more ponderous.<p>But while the magnitudes differ, the vectors look similar. Not exactly the same, because history rhymes with itself before it repeats itself.<p>Curious what other similarities and dissimilarities other old timers see.