Boo. I liked Ohloh. OK, it was a proprietary web service, but it had neat things for people who write code.

All the notes in the blackducksoftware.com/ohloh/ page talk about making it easier for corporate people to consume free software, not providing services for free software developers.

Disclaimer: I work for Black Duck / Ohloh.

As far as I can tell, existing Ohloh features and community will stay as is and will remain free as we add more features and enhance the site. Feel free to email me <username> @ blackducksoftware.com if you'd like to ask any specific questions or have ideas/comments/suggestions.

FWIW - I think this FAQ covers a lot of questions - http://www.blackducksoftware.com/ohloh/faq.html

They open sourced some of their stuff though, e.g., the Ohcount project which uses Ragel FSM for counting LOC in a variety of languages (what generates most of statistics in Ohloh).

Speaking of counting LOC there is also sloccount[1].

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount

Per recent news items about large companies considering open source an issue :( ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1735360 ) in the products/services they acquire, the Black Duck code label seems like it would be useful:

http://www.blackducksoftware.com/files/code-label1.jpg

For others though, I'm not sure what the use would be, as they'd probably try to hide it from companies that asked, even though that could kill a deal per: http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2010/09/27/27idg-how-to-...

After reading the article on typefaces, looking at this announcement makes my eyes bleed. >_<