I they must be doing this for profit. I think if enough noise is generated
around this practice, SourceForge is sure to note less and less visitors,
downloads and income, this might make them change their behavior. So I
think "advertising" SF's nasty moves is a good way to go.
2015-05-28 23:37 GMT
yeah, that's trademark, not copyright. How lawyered-up is LMMS? (my
guess: not very.)
On 28 May 2015 at 22:30, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
>> This is not technically illegal
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure about that. They claiming to offer one thing and giving
> you something else. This bait and switch is
> This is not technically illegal
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. They claiming to offer one thing and giving
you something else. This bait and switch is more than sleazy, it violates
most ethical practices, which civil law tends to frown upon.
They are liable for damages rendered from this malw
What they've been doing with many projects is taking the binaries and
putting them up under the open source licence ... with adware in the
downloader. This is not technically illegal, just incredibly sleazy.
On 28 May 2015 at 21:58, Spekular R wrote:
> Wouldn't it be safer to completely remove LM
Wouldn't it be safer to completely remove LMMS's files? This is incredibly
sleazy to do, especially from a company that seems to try to appear as a
supporter of open source.
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:42 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> Yeah, nobody coul
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
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 rema
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 infor
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
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