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> This was so mind-boggling even at the time that SourceForge thought ... They'd been recently bought by a shitty company called DICE that also owned ummm... C
by justinclift 3y ago
> This was so mind-boggling even at the time that SourceForge thought ...
They'd been recently bought by a shitty company called DICE that also owned ummm... CNet or Download.com, or some other similar place with lots of downloads for Windows users:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice.com
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy
That company already served ~malware~ sorry "bundled third party offers" with their windows downloads, and figured they'd be able to copy-n-paste that approach to popular OSS downloads.
That's not how it played out however, as some of us actually give a shit about things like that. ;)
- akira2501 3y agoIt was a funny and gross moment shortly after the corporation I was working at had acquired CNet where every IT department was notified by corporate IT that download.com was not a reliable site and should _never_ be used to download software into the company.
- justinclift 3y agoHeh, so they bought CNet then suddenly it was banned and traffic dropped off a cliff or something?
- outop 3y agoThat's the company that bought Slashdot isn't it?
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoYup. /. is a faint shadow of what they once were. TBF, it wasn't just Dice. At that time, CNN and Yahoo (I think) nuked their trollgard- er, comments, and they all went to slashdot. It became the place to go, for top-quality Nazi ASCII art.