Wednesday, February 18, 2009

SourceForge

What is SourceForge.net?



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SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience.

As of February, 2009, more than 230,000 software projects have been registered to use our services by more than 2 million registered users, making SourceForge.net the largest collection of open source tools and applications on the net.


SourceForge.net is a source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. SourceForge.net is operated by Sourceforge, Inc. and runs a version of the SourceForge software, forked from the last open-source version available. As of August 2008, SourceForge.net hosts more than 180,000 projects and more than 1.9 million registered users, although it does contain many dormant or single-user projects.

SourceForge.net has offered free access to hosting and tools for developers of free software / open source software for several years, and has become well-known within such development communities for these services.

SourceForge.net competes with other providers such as RubyForge, Tigris.org, BountySource, BerliOS, JavaForge and GNU Savannah.

The domain sourceforge.net attracted at least 28 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.


Courtesy of Wikipedia.



Related Links

-http://sourceforge.net/
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge
-http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/

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