GNU Savannah

In 2003, Vincent Caron, friend to Loïc Dachary, found out the security of the server located was compromised.

When this server was put in place, after a four-month outage without any public news, only Free Software Foundation employees had access to it.

Notably savannah-hackers had no access[6] and found out that Richard M. Stallman decided to move GNU Savannah to GForge because it was "seriously maintained".

[7] In response, Vincent Caron, Loïc Dachary and Mathieu Roy put up an alternative instance of the software called Gna!, with a specific constitution inspired by the Debian Social Contract designed to prevent any unexpected take over.

[8] GNU Savannah was totally or partly offline for months and, ultimately, did not move to GForge, which itself turned into proprietary software.