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If you didn't know sourceforge have back-pedalled 2 days ago and said they'll stop bundling the crapware in the mirrored projects: http://sourceforge.net/blog/

If you didn't know sourceforge have back-pedalled 2 days ago and said they'll stop bundling the crapware in the mirrored projects: http://sourceforge.net/blog/third-party-offers-will-be-presented-with-opt-in-projects-only/ http://sourceforge.net/blog/third-party-offers-will-be-prese... The author, and a lot of the commentators here, don't seem to have seen that announcement.

chinathrow 11y ago
Then why are those hundres of mirror accounts still online? There is simply no excuse for that.
Karuma 11y ago
You probably missed this part at the end: PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before.
oSand 11y ago
They've probably seen it, just given it no credence
madaxe_again 11y ago
Because they said it it must be true! Fool me twice...
embik 11y ago
We saw it, but why does it matter? They also claimed to never add adware without consent before. Even considering to bundle up malware with FOSS projects is offensive to me. They lost my trust and a simple blog post won't win it back. The policy of taking over "abandoned" projects is super shady as well. That's what this mailing list post is about, isn't it?
- mattmanser 11y ago
  Not "we" as the author of the post doesn't know about this announcement from sourceforge, as they say: we haven't caught them trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP So stop trying to speak for 100s of thousands of people at once.
  - embik 11y ago
    This very mail also says PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before. He does know about the announcement, but he does not trust them anymore. That's fully understandable. Fool me twice, etc. Additionally, you addressed people posting in this thread. The Sourceforge announcement was all over HN and reddit and a lot of people following the whole issue knew about it. It's simply not enough to win back user's trust. But I already addressed that - Yet you chose to critize my way of wording, not the very content.
dspillett 11y ago
But they've said that before. This amount to "we promise to stop breaking the promise we made earlier". I for one won't be trusting this new promise to last either.

chinathrow 11y ago

Then why are those hundres of mirror accounts still online? There is simply no excuse for that.

Karuma 11y ago

You probably missed this part at the end: PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before.

oSand 11y ago

They've probably seen it, just given it no credence

madaxe_again 11y ago

Because they said it it must be true! Fool me twice...

embik 11y ago

We saw it, but why does it matter? They also claimed to never add adware without consent before. Even considering to bundle up malware with FOSS projects is offensive to me. They lost my trust and a simple blog post won't win it back. The policy of taking over "abandoned" projects is super shady as well. That's what this mailing list post is about, isn't it?

mattmanser 11y ago
Not "we" as the author of the post doesn't know about this announcement from sourceforge, as they say: we haven't caught them trojaning Nmap the way they did with GIMP So stop trying to speak for 100s of thousands of people at once.
- embik 11y ago
  This very mail also says PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before. He does know about the announcement, but he does not trust them anymore. That's fully understandable. Fool me twice, etc. Additionally, you addressed people posting in this thread. The Sourceforge announcement was all over HN and reddit and a lot of people following the whole issue knew about it. It's simply not enough to win back user's trust. But I already addressed that - Yet you chose to critize my way of wording, not the very content.

dspillett 11y ago

But they've said that before. This amount to "we promise to stop breaking the promise we made earlier". I for one won't be trusting this new promise to last either.