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Every good dev knows to stay the hell away from sourceforge!

by fjabre 8y ago

throwawaymath 8y ago
Only if that's part of your definition of a good dev. I know plenty of good devs who downloaded software from Sourceforge back when it was big. Let me guess: you also dislike GitHub because it's closed, and wish people would distribute software from their own, self-hosted git repositories?
- thanksDr 8y ago
  Devs get better by learning from mistakes. Sourceforge is a hostile source of malware : https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00144.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May... You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast.
  - detaro 8y ago
    was, not is. Sourceforge has changed hands since then.
    - duxup 8y ago
      Yeah my understanding is after it changed hands they did away with all the nasty stuff that happened in the past.
  - throwawaymath 8y ago
    > You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast. Oh no, it's the 90s and Micro$oft is evil! They're going to embrace, extend, extinguish all my open source software! I won't be free to develop software anymore! I'm quite happy with Microsoft, and if supporting GitHub "feeds the beast", then I'm likewise happy to see that beast well-fed.
  - miles 8y ago
    That was true back in 2015. New owners have been cleaning it up since 2016: Under new management, SourceForge moves to put badness in past https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
miles 8y ago
Logan Abbott[0] bought SourceForge back in 2016 and has been cleaning it up ever since[1]: > Hi, president of SourceForge here. Glad this is trending, albeit a few months later. These articles seem to trend on HN every few months, with many people not realizing SourceForge changed ownership in 2016 and that the new team's been working hard on improving. To be clear, we had nothing to do with the bundled adware decisions of 2015, and when we took over in 2016, the first thing we did was remove the bundled adware, as well as institute malware scans for every project on the site. We're working hard to restore trust, so if we win some of you back that would be cool. However, we're just focused on doing right by our million daily users. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loganabbott https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loganabbott [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592523

Every good dev knows to stay the hell away from sourceforge!

by fjabre 8y ago

Every good dev knows to stay the hell away from sourceforge!

Only if that's part of your definition of a good dev. I know plenty of good devs who downloaded software from Sourceforge back when it was big. Let me guess: you also dislike GitHub because it's closed, and wish people would distribute software from their own, self-hosted git repositories?

thanksDr 8y ago
Devs get better by learning from mistakes. Sourceforge is a hostile source of malware : https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00144.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May... You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast.
- detaro 8y ago
  was, not is. Sourceforge has changed hands since then.
  - duxup 8y ago
    Yeah my understanding is after it changed hands they did away with all the nasty stuff that happened in the past.
- throwawaymath 8y ago
  > You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast. Oh no, it's the 90s and Micro$oft is evil! They're going to embrace, extend, extinguish all my open source software! I won't be free to develop software anymore! I'm quite happy with Microsoft, and if supporting GitHub "feeds the beast", then I'm likewise happy to see that beast well-fed.
- miles 8y ago
  That was true back in 2015. New owners have been cleaning it up since 2016: Under new management, SourceForge moves to put badness in past https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...

miles 8y ago

Logan Abbott[0] bought SourceForge back in 2016 and has been cleaning it up ever since[1]: > Hi, president of SourceForge here. Glad this is trending, albeit a few months later. These articles seem to trend on HN every few months, with many people not realizing SourceForge changed ownership in 2016 and that the new team's been working hard on improving. To be clear, we had nothing to do with the bundled adware decisions of 2015, and when we took over in 2016, the first thing we did was remove the bundled adware, as well as institute malware scans for every project on the site. We're working hard to restore trust, so if we win some of you back that would be cool. However, we're just focused on doing right by our million daily users. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loganabbott https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loganabbott [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592523