[jballanc]

> Before 2007, the way to participate in Open Source was fragmented.

Um...ever hear of Source Forge? Yeah, before 2007 there was another OSS hegemony. It failed to meet its users needs. It was replaced.

So it goes.

[JustSomeNobody]

The Internet has a VERY short memory.

[fxn]

The author of the post had projects in SourceForge, also listed in Freshmeat.

But they were not hubs at the GitHub level, contributing to Open Source was fragmented.

[Gratsby]

And then they decided to inject adware into OSS installers. What a nightmare that was.