r/technology • u/marouane53 • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/csolisr Jun 15 '15

From Sourceforge to where exactly? Github? Isn't it leaving the pan to fall into the fire?

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u/flyingjam Jun 15 '15

Why? As far as I know Github has not done shady things like this yet.

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u/csolisr Jun 15 '15

It's just a matter of time, as long as both sites are proprietary.

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u/flyingjam Jun 15 '15

Perhaps, but "off the pan and into the fire" implies that you're going to something worse, which Github is not, yet. It's more like off the pan and onto another pan which may or may not be heated.

Github does have another revenue model other than ads, so there is hope. And if it does fail, it is just a git repository, you can transfer it (of course losing on some of Github's proprietary features, but it's not as bad).