I was thinking similar thoughts from the other direction - that they have turned to money wringing desperation might mean there is no money to get the thing back up. If the situation turns out to be "it's dead Jim, we need to spend several million on a replacement EMC filer or shut down forever", it might be gone along with all the valuable projects hosted there.

In some ways the bundleware served like a SMART warning, causing people to back up and migrate their projects.

The way I discovered SF was down was when I was trying to install some Slackbuilds and kept getting MD5 mismatches on the source downloads. I noticed I was getting the same MD5 for several different packages, so I tried to manually grab a package and that's when I hit SF's error page (which sbopkg was happily downloading and trying to pass off as somesourcepkg.tar.gz).

I found myself in the odd position of hoping SF would come back up so I could finish what I was doing, when I'd normally welcome the news that they had shut down.

It does still seem to be offline, for a whole bunch of projects - I like to check in on dosemu from time to time and it is fucked !

http://www.dosemu.org/

What's happened to the mailing list archives for all these projects, are they just down the toilet now? And of course the source, this is bloody terrible !