Litigation	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Litigation [Abstract]
Litigation	Litigation In January 2001, the Company, two of its former officers, and Credit Suisse First Boston, the lead underwriter in the Company's initial public offering ("IPO"), were named as defendants in a shareholder lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, later consolidated and captioned In re VA Software Corp. Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 01-CV-0242. The plaintiffs' class action suit seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a purported class of purchasers of the Company's common stock from the time of the Company's initial public offering in December 1999 through December 2000. On January 9, 2012, the matter was withdrawn with prejudice by the Plaintiffs. On October 3, 2007, a purported Geeknet (formerly SourceForge, Inc.) shareholder filed a complaint for violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which prohibits short-swing trading, against the Company's IPO underwriters. The complaint, Vanessa Simmonds v. Credit Suisse Group, et al., Case No. C07-1583, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks the recovery of short-swing profits. The Company is named as a nominal defendant and no recovery is sought from the Company. Between October 2 and October 12, 2007, the plaintiff filed approximately 53 other similar cases against other defendants. On March 12, 2009, the district court granted without prejudice the motion to dismiss filed by 30 of the issuer defendants, and granted with prejudice the motion to dismiss filed by all of the underwriter defendants, which resulted in the dismissal of the complaint filed against the Company. The plaintiff timely appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. By opinion dated December 3, 2010, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the suits against the 30 moving issuer defendants on the grounds that the demand letters sent to those issuers were inadequate under Delaware law, and converted the dismissals from without prejudice to with prejudice. The court also reversed the dismissal of the suits against the underwriter defendants, and the remaining 24 issuer defendants, including the Company, but is allowing those issuer defendants to challenge the adequacy of the demand letters that the plaintiff sent to the issuers before filing suit. Both sides filed petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, which denied plaintiff's writ, but granted the underwriters' writ. Oral argument was held before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 29, 2011. A decision is expected during this term of court, which extends from October 2011-June 2012. If the Court reverses the 9th Circuit the case will be concluded. If the court affirms the 9th Circuit the case will be remanded to the District Court for further proceedings. The Company is subject to various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company reviews all claims and accrues a liability for those matters where it believes that the likelihood that a loss will occur is probable and the amount of loss is reasonably estimable. At December 31, 2011, no liability was recorded for outstanding matters.

Litigation

In January 2001, the Company, two of its former officers, and Credit Suisse First Boston, the lead underwriter in the Company's initial public offering ("IPO"), were named as defendants in a shareholder lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, later consolidated and captioned In re VA Software Corp. Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 01-CV-0242. The plaintiffs' class action suit seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a purported class of purchasers of the Company's common stock from the time of the Company's initial public offering in December 1999 through December 2000. On January 9, 2012, the matter was withdrawn with prejudice by the Plaintiffs.

On October 3, 2007, a purported Geeknet (formerly SourceForge, Inc.) shareholder filed a complaint for violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which prohibits short-swing trading, against the Company's IPO underwriters. The complaint, Vanessa Simmonds v. Credit Suisse Group, et al., Case No. C07-1583, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks the recovery of short-swing profits. The Company is named as a nominal defendant and no recovery is sought from the Company. Between October 2 and October 12, 2007, the plaintiff filed approximately 53 other similar cases against other defendants. On March 12, 2009, the district court granted without prejudice the motion to dismiss filed by 30 of the issuer defendants, and granted with prejudice the motion to dismiss filed by all of the underwriter defendants, which resulted in the dismissal of the complaint filed against the Company. The plaintiff timely appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. By opinion dated December 3, 2010, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the suits against the 30 moving issuer defendants on the grounds that the demand letters sent to those issuers were inadequate under Delaware law, and converted the dismissals from without prejudice to with prejudice. The court also reversed the dismissal of the suits against the underwriter defendants, and the remaining 24 issuer defendants, including the Company, but is allowing those issuer defendants to challenge the adequacy of the demand letters that the plaintiff sent to the issuers before filing suit. Both sides filed petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, which denied plaintiff's writ, but granted the underwriters' writ. Oral argument was held before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 29, 2011. A decision is expected during this term of court, which extends from October 2011-June 2012. If the Court reverses the 9th Circuit the case will be concluded. If the court affirms the 9th Circuit the case will be remanded to the District Court for further proceedings.

The Company is subject to various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company reviews all claims and accrues a liability for those matters where it believes that the likelihood that a loss will occur is probable and the amount of loss is reasonably estimable. At December 31, 2011, no liability was recorded for outstanding matters.