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Curious, what part of the industry is "software forge" a term of art? I have been programming since the late 90s and have never heard it. Looks like it was popular from 1988 to 2007:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Software+Forge...

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I would fully expect not everybody to have ran into it. I would not expect people to complain about the term without looking it up first.

It is not a term of art. A veteran programmer here and I also cringed when saw it used in this context.

It's far from new.

It's new to me, a 15 year industry veteran. I know of sourceforge but never heard the term used otherwise.

That's fair enough!

Exactly. I never saw SourceForge as some sort of inspiration name-wise.

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