Marketing claims always tend to be a bit sketchy, and getting marketing departments to follow academic practices of source citation is rather unlikely. However, it is possible that they do have a larger installed base for historical reasons, aside from what you might see listed in download statistics from Source Forge.
I guess a broader question for Source Forge would be whether they have any stated policy or practice regarding targeting ads at competitors pages within Source Forge. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------- Erdös 4 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > For your information, I have just submitted the following service request to > Source Forge. While one must tolerate a certain amount of abuse in this > world, in this particular case (see below), I find Source Forge's commercial > actions annoying ... > > =============== > Every time I access the Bacula Source Forge page, there are ads for Zmanda, > which I don't much like, but OK, you have to earn your living too. However, > these ads are what I call abusive in the sense that they are providing what I > consider to be unfounded and possibly false information. For example, the > most recent add claims that Amanda or Zmanda is the most popular Open Source > backup software. Where is the proof of this? If I look at the project > statistics and your rating of the Amanda vs Bacula projects are as follows: > > Bacula > rank = 664 Downloads = 313,407 > > Amanda > rank = 1,138 Downloads = 182,253 > > If Amanda/Zmanda wish to make such doubtful and probably false claims on > their > web site, that is one thing, but for you to post this blatantly on my project > page really does me a disservice and is not helping promote true Open Source > software, but rather promoting a commercial organization. > > Please remove the Zmanda false adds from my project page. > > I have copied this request to the Bacula email lists and encourage the Bacula > users to express their opinions on this subject in a responsible way. > ========== > > Best regards, > > Kern > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
