It lingers on mostly to host the MS Web Safe fonts. https://sourceforge.net/top/ https://sourceforge.net/top/ IIRC this is from where the core fonts installer

It lingers on mostly to host the MS Web Safe fonts. https://sourceforge.net/top/ https://sourceforge.net/top/ IIRC this is from where the core fonts installer on Debian fetches them. Hence the 2.7B downloads.