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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.
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor2/profile/
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor3/profile/
Edit: added http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor/profile/ which includes MySQL and a few other high profile projects.
If they have no future brand value to be concerned about, then, from a game-theoretic approach, it's actually a pretty rational profit seeking move. (As long as they don't incur any downstream liabilities from outright illegal activity for which they might be fined, or successfully sued - if there is any entity left to sue)
Of course, the game-theoretic response from the entire internet community is to make sure they never, ever, for any reasons whatsoever, ever click on a link that starts with "sourceforge.net"
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-prese... The author, and a lot of the commentators here, don't seem to have seen that announcement.
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-prese... The author, and a lot of the commentators here, don't seem to have seen that announcement.
PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before.
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-prese... The author, and a lot of the commentators here, don't seem to have seen that announcement.
This is the sort of behavior you get from a company that's lost, and is now trying to extract every penny they can from whatever shenanigans they can get away with. If they have no future brand value to be concerned about, then, from a game-theoretic approach, it's actually a pretty rational profit seeking move. (As long as they don't incur any downstream liabilities from outright illegal activity for which they migh…
So what decent release tarball storage services are there today if github's autogenerated release tarballs don't do it for you?
I see the nmap tarball is 20 Megabytes = 50,000 downloads.
The cost of hosting should be easily covered by your user base.
If your old account is listed here, you getting fuxxored: http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/ http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor2/profile/ http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor3/profile/ Edit: added http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor/profile/ which includes MySQL and a few other high profile projects.