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Thus losing their last holdout ? I'm not sure what the guys owning sourceforge are thinking those last few years, but boy do they try their best to kill their w

• rainforest 13y ago
  It's opt-in, so it doesn't really affect the developers whether they want it or not. It's the users they're hurting if anyone.
• commentzorro 13y ago
  They're thinking they want to make enough money to keep the site running. They've found that begging and running ads prior to downloads just isn't enough and that this more aggressive approach might help. Yes, they will lose you. But I suspect they think they'll gain more in partnerships with popular software than what they loose. Especially if you were a leech.