When selling a site means selling a community (Opensource.com)
In the first of two parts Opensource.com talkswith Frank Karlitschek about the sale of his network of more than 30community sites to Blue Systems. "Although he doesn't know much about the future plans Blue Systems has for the websites, Karlitschek says the new owner is interested in continuing to run the websites and develop them in a direction that makes sense for the users and the ecosystem."
Part 2 looksat the SourceForge and Slashdot communities and how the differentowners have interacted with them. "[Logan] Abbott got off on theright foot with open source developers with his SourceForge post in earlyFebruary, SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans. "Our first order of business was to terminate the 'DevShare' program," he wrote. " ... We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We're more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit," he added."