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http://slashdot.org/submission/4471377/sf-says-adware-bundled-with-gimp-is-intentional - [email protected] On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:42 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, nobody could quite believe SF would be this brazen. See Ars Technica: > > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/ > > Note that this is not a case of a project adding adware for some > supporting income (as Filezilla does, and LMMS used to do this) - this > is SF just hijacking a pile of projects' good names. > > On 28 May 2015 at 14:33, Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Nevermind, just read the response from sourceforge (sorry, it's me not > > knowing all of the information). They suck. > > > > > https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/j > > > > Well, our page still links to GitHub, so we should be in the clear. Good > > work Toby for getting the remaining releases off of SF and on to GitHub. > > > > - [email protected] > > > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Tres Finocchiaro > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I'd kindly ask everyone to report abuse using the support page: > >> > >> http://sourceforge.net/support > >> > >> Those Gimp binaries are downloaded over 1,000 times a day. > >> > >> In regards to blaming sourceforge for this, we don't know that for sure, > >> so be careful to blame them for this without knowing all of the > information. > >> > >> -Tres > >> > >> - [email protected] > >> > >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:33 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe > >>> > >>> They just took the GIMP for Windows project, locked out the maintainer > >>> and started serving a malwared .exe. > >>> > >>> Nonapology for malware: > >>> > >>> > https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/ > >>> > >>> I see LMMS has all .exe files off there at last, so ... just in time? > >>> > >>> How movable are the remaining functions, e.g. this list? > >>> > >>> > >>> - d. > >>> > >>> > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> LMMS-devel mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > >> > >> > > >
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