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Is it bad I'm still turned off by anything hosted on sourceforge? Even after the recent changes.
by JoshGlazebrook 10y ago
Is it bad I'm still turned off by anything hosted on sourceforge? Even after the recent changes.
- mashlol 10y agoI wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?
- niftich 10y agoUnder new management, they discontinued the bundled adware, started scanning all projects for malware, and are shown that they're serious about trying to repair damage to the brand caused by the previous owner [1][2]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-... [2] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThanks for the reminder. I somehow missed or forgotten that, and continued to be heavily biased against them. Hopefully they'll succeed in bringing SourceForge back to a respectable level.
- detaro 10y agoThey were bought in January and the new owners have reverted a lot of the heavily criticized policies and try to gain trust back. (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752)
- mmanfrin 10y agoNo, damage has been done. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
- Dylan16807 10y agoThat's a pretty terrible adage when it's different people. Unless you're applying that rule to all program downloads across the web.