Kuro5hin: The SourceForge Hegemony
May 03, 2004, 21:15 (10 Talkback[s])
"Recently, a project I have been sharing co-admin
responsiblities for was hijacked. I won't mention the name of the
project because the actual hijacking isn't the subject of this
rant, but I will go so far as to say said project has been around
for several years, and appears in several Linux distros. Why do I
call this a hijacking? Because I was removed from both admin and
developer lists without my consent. Because the developers of the
project were removed, and replaced with two developers who later
confirmed in separate e-mails that they did not request to be put
on the project, have no knowledge of the project, and were not
asked if they wanted to join the project. I might also add I have
been the major contributor to this project for the last three
years, and while the project hasn't seen much in the way of
activity over the last year or so, it was by no means an abandoned
project..."
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