[RndTbl] SourceForge pulling a CNet download.com boneheaded move?
Gilles Detillieux
grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca
Fri Jun 5 10:52:35 CDT 2015
Have any of you heard about SourceForge's recent takeover/highjacking of
GIMP for Windows and Nmap? This was a bit of a shocker to me. It seems
to be a way of forcing the inclusion of adware in downloads, for popular
projects that don't agree to it.
https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe - GIMP
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194 - Nmap
The beginning of the end for a former open source champion? So sad when
short-term thinking takes over.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
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