Sourceforge has killed itself by completely breaking the trust with their developers and their end-users.
SourceForge: Third party offers will be presented with Opt-In projects only
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#12On top of this /. is burying articles critical of this: http://danluu.com/slashdot-sourceforge/
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#13i use one program with frequent updates which distributes from sourceforge. the installer is a piece of work. first, it is a fake-installer (that installs nothing) with the actual installer inside. that program first offers you "standard" and "advanced" fake-install options (remember, it install nothing)... when you click "advanced" it now shows 3 checkboxes, checked, that will 1. install a browser toolbar, 2. set yo…
Opening in 7-zip and extracting the contents manually has worked in the past for me when encountering such things. (Incidentally, many people don't know that 7-zip can extract installer executables and various other formats too...)
So does WinRar and Ubuntu's Archive Manager.
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#14On top of this /. is burying articles critical of this: http://danluu.com/slashdot-sourceforge/
Slashdot still exists?
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#15Sourceforge has killed itself by completely breaking the trust with their developers and their end-users.
100 times this.
Way too little, way too late.
And this is a typical corporate-speak fauxpology "Sorry you were offended"-style. _Maybe_ if they'd confessed to unethically pushing shit-ware via dark patterns, they might regain some trust, but "3rd party offers" and "easy-to-decline" are not the phrases they need to be saying to turn around my opinion/advice of "Download from Sourceforge? No chance, I wonder if there's an alternative way to get that software, or if I have to find an alternative?"
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#16This is nice and all, but...the mere fact that SourceForge, an Open Source community site , ever thought it was even close to OK to intentionally distribute malware to anyone under any circumstances (whether with the permission of the developer, or not). AFAIK, by calling themselves and Open Source community site, SourceForge has opted into an ethical obligation not just to their developers who build the software but…
" … SourceForge has opted into an ethical obligation … "
Well they haven't - but they're certainly happy to laugh all the way to the bank on malware distribution payments while people assume they're "ethical" from their word-choice and propaganda…
Reputations catch up with that eventually though - I doubt Sourceforge is very far from being a doubleplusungood sarcastic misnomer - the Minitruth of Open Source...
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#17damage is already done, its a real shame too.
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#18This is nice and all, but...the mere fact that SourceForge, an Open Source community site , ever thought it was even close to OK to intentionally distribute malware to anyone under any circumstances (whether with the permission of the developer, or not). AFAIK, by calling themselves and Open Source community site, SourceForge has opted into an ethical obligation not just to their developers who build the software but…
This is where the distinction between "Open Source" and "Free Software" actually matters.
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#19i use one program with frequent updates which distributes from sourceforge. the installer is a piece of work. first, it is a fake-installer (that installs nothing) with the actual installer inside. that program first offers you "standard" and "advanced" fake-install options (remember, it install nothing)... when you click "advanced" it now shows 3 checkboxes, checked, that will 1. install a browser toolbar, 2. set yo…
Opening in 7-zip and extracting the contents manually has worked in the past for me when encountering such things. (Incidentally, many people don't know that 7-zip can extract installer executables and various other formats too...)
UniExtract is another one. But none of them open all types of installers afaik. Another possibility for msi is msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo. Actually before installing anything at all I usually try some of these to get a portable app. It's amazing how many installers out there are bascially just automatic single-directory extractors which also happen to add some regsitry entries.
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#20"As a company, we at SourceForge pride ourselves on being highly responsive to our community members and, with that in mind, do our best to respond to all communications and address all concerns in a timely manner." "Comments are closed."
...and the post is unsigned.