SourceForge grabs GIMP for Windows’ account, wraps installer in bundle-pushing adware

http://arstechnica.com/information-...unt-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/

http://www.gimp.org/

 

This is a pretty sad and unfortunate turn of events, but at the same time is not entirely surprising. Sourceforge has been going in this direction for several years now.

 

Follow up from GIMP devs: http://www.gimp.org/

 

Strong words of condemnation here:

and kudos to GIMP for standing their ground and following up. It has also certainly (rightly) stirred up a hornet's nest of angry devs and others on the SourceForge blog post.

 

Sourceforge adds adware-installers to abandoned projects (and removes them again) - by ghacks

 

I will stay away from Sourceforge now, thanks for the tip.

 

I've always got GIMP (for Windows) from their official site. I hope SourceForge don't turn to the darkside lol.

 

Ars Technica follow up:

SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising
http://arstechnica.com/information-...s-of-fleeing-users-cashed-in-on-malvertising/

 

SourceForge rectifies

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930032/sourceforge-stops-ad-bundling-without-permission.html

 

Thanks for this. As others have noted, Sourceforge has been on that slippery slope for a while now. I hope everybody shouts it from the rooftops everywhere. Bundleware aka scumware, is reprehensible.

 

Yeah, but it kinda feels like they are halfway there already

 

Yeah, it's not good.

 

Black “mirror”: SourceForge has now seized Nmap audit tool project | Ars Technica

 

Warning: Don’t Download Software From SourceForge If You Can Help It (by howtogeek)

 

https://sourceforge.net/blog/source...in-the-integrity-of-our-open-source-backbone/

 

Ugh

First off, the explaination or whatever begins with Having heard from so many of you — developers, end-users, and friends — we’re taking a moment to speak about our values, practices and business model followed by "Comments are closed " although this ---> You are very welcome to join the conversation at the Source Forge Community Voice on SourceForge but no SF response to the few posters yet.

 

Notepad++ leaves SourceForge
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html

 

Popular Software projects leave Sourceforge (ghacks)

 

Realised I had to be careful of SF quite some time ago, but I'm still surprised by their rapid descent.

 

I noticed today that uBlock Origin is now blocking SourceForge via an entry on the 'uBlock filters' list. Good, I say!

Code:

# http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/anatomy-of-sourceforge-gimp-controversy
# https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/
# Using `other` will cause the whole site to be blocked through strict blocking,
# yet the site will render properly if a user still decide to go ahead.
||sourceforge.net^$other

http://i.imgur.com/lmeXLPt.png

 

Agreed! I'm glad to see the open source community coming together like this.

 

will be nice when bandwidth gets so cheap that all developers can have the downloads on their own sites.

 

Yes, and now also softonic.net.