The
Open
Source
Developers
Network or
OSDN is a site hosted by
VA Linux[?] dedicated to the
Open Source Initiative. It is an attempt to bring together a crital mass of talent to create software that conforms to the
GNU license model promoted by the
Free Software Foundation.
Sites hosted:
- FRESHMEAT (http://www.freshmeat.net)
- GEOCRAWLER (http://www.geocrawler.com/)
- LINUX.COM (http://www.linux.com/)
- LINUXGRAM (http://www.linuxgram.com/)
- NEWSFORGE (http://www.newsforge.com/)
- SLASHCODE (http://www.slashcode.com/)
- SLASHDOT (http://www.slashdot.com/)
- SOURCEFORGE (http://sourceforge.net/)
- THEMES.ORG (http://www.themes.org/)
- THINKGEEK (http://www.thinkgeek.com/)
OSDN dropped kuro5hin.org sometime in late 2001/early 2002
because the subject matter of the kuro5hin.org news site
had become increasingly less about nerd stuff and increasingly
more about politics, philosophy, the workplace,
and other 'liberal arts fluff' that many engineers dislike.