Why an Open Source Forge Matters | Linux Today

Why an Open Source Forge Matters

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 6, 2011

“SourceForge is home to hundreds of thousands of open source
projects, millions of registered users, and hundreds of new
projects every week. A decade ago SourceForge.net was an important
innovation in the community, and was a part of a movement that
changed the IT world.

Sourceforge helped to bring open source to every datacenter,
helped to fuel a communication and productivity revolution, and
helped to fuel the Open Source revolution that changed everything
from the way we keep in touch with relatives to the way we run our
governments. I think we can do it again in this decade.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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