Sourceforge.net is now unblocked by the G.F.W of China, and netizens from the mainland can now visit this largest repository of Opensource with little hassle. The site of Notepad++ is also left untouched by the seemingly impenetrable “Wall”, and its almost blasphemous attitude toward the Holy Olympic Games is visible to the people from the Mainland China. However, the original picture of five interlaced handcuffs on the site of Notepad++ is gone.
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Many netizens believe the blockage of Sourceforge.net is due to the political opinion expressed by one of its projects – Notepad++ which is hosted on Sourceforge. The whole site of Sourceforge became inaccessible in the Mainland China as a result of this censorship.
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As of June 25, 2008, sourceforge.net is no longer accessible in the mainland China. I noticed this when I tried to file a bug report to my favorite task management application Task Coach. Then I realized that the headquarters of Open Source Software is blocked again.
It took me a while to figure out why this pure technical, IT related site is blocked by the Great Fire Wall (GFW):
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