Open Source Downloads An Endangered Species

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Submitted by WebMink on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:29AM

WebMink writes: With news this week that GitHub is banning storage of any file over 100Mb and discouraging files larger than 50Mb, their retreat from offering download services is complete. SourceForge is left as about the only large host for open source projects to easily offer binary downloads. Is the DMCA to blame?

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