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Joakal on June 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters

In a way, you're right. However GitHub's model is subscriptions fund the free yet small open repositories whereas SourceForge's model is advertisement (I can't find a way to on SF though).

So naturally, GitHub had to appeal for subscribers. While for SF, I always thought ads was stupid due to the educated demographic that would likely have adblock.

jbk on June 3, 2011 [–]

Most of the people who go on SF, are people downloading popular open source software binaries. See http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week

And those people are not the educated demographic that have adblock...

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