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SourceForge

SourceForge

SourceForge

1999

01

January

SourceForge was founded by VA Software.

2000

01

January

The software running the SourceForge site was released as free software.

2001

01

November

The last release under a free license was made.

2002

01

September

SourceForge was temporarily banned in China for the first time.

2008

01

July

SourceForge was temporarily banned in China for the second time.

2009

01

January

SourceForge announced a new site platform, Allura.

2012

01

September

SourceForge, Slashdot, and Freecode were acquired from Geeknet by Dice.com for $20 million, and incorporated into Slashdot Media.

2016

17

May

SourceForge started scanning all projects for malware, and displaying warnings on projects detected to have malware.

2016

01

December

after SourceForge was sold to BizX, DevShare was discontinued.

BIZX rebranded as Slashdot Media.