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Comment by dm2 | Hacker News Reader

SourceForge was sold in 2012 to a conglomerate company named "DHI GROUP INC" or "Dice Holdings Inc" that owns the following companies:

  Dice
  Open Web
  The IT Job Board
  ClearanceJobs
  eFinancialCareers
  Rigzone
  HEALTHeCAREERS
  BioSpace
  Hcareers
  SourceForge
  Slashdot
  WorkDigital

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I remember thinking "I guess they want to get more of the tech community's mindshare to promote their job board" when Dice bought Slashdot. With the way they've alienated the tech community by trashing Slashdot and SourceForge, I wonder how many tech people will use their job board now.

One problem is that people looking for jobs are usually inexperienced with it, so there is constantly an unusually large supply of "fresh meat".

There should be more regulation on the jobs market. It's a data-mining goldmine and fake job postings aren't illegal as far as I'm aware of.

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