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As part of their obvi­ous need to cut costs, OSDN (Open Source Devel­op­ers Net­work) is end­ing their affil­i­ate agree­ment with kuro5hin​.org. K5 has always had a “more than Linux” approach to things (which made it less stri­dent than /.). Luck­ily, they’re not likely to die as a result.

Mean­while, the owner of OSDN, VA Linux, is chang­ing their name to VA Soft­ware. This reflects their retreat from the hard­ware busi­ness and, along with the OSDN changes, sig­nals the begin­ning of a fight to stay alive. This is an impor­tant one for open source soft­ware, since VA what­ever owns Source­Forge, the host­ing facil­ity (and more) for thou­sands (28,759 at last count) of open source projects.

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