sourceforge problems

[Gerhard Häring]

Robin Becker wrote:
> In message <16115.2851.995073.486228 at montanaro.dyndns.org>, Skip
> Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes
> 
>>   Robin> There are thousands of projects hosted at sf.net and it seems it
>>   Robin> has become a single point of failure for open source. Is it a
>>   Robin> good idea.
>>
>>Maybe Microsoft should buy SF?
> 
> yes I thought of that, but the idea is too frightening :(

Why's that frightening? The projects that are worth it could then find 
another home, and all the useless ones wouldn't be visible any more :-P

Seriously, the SF code was (still is?) Open-Source and there are several 
sites that have set up SF clones. At least GNU and PostgreSQL have one. 
Here's the Pg one, for example: http://gborg.postgresql.org/

-- Gerhard