(I did not see any reason this discussion should go private, so I moved it to public.)
As far as I read, the GIMP team had never opt-in distributing
adwares/malwares. They did agree to share SF.net's ad profit, but not
bundling adwares/malwares with their installers. And SF.net did
hijacked GIMP for Windows without authors' consent.
Goodbye, SourceForge.
https://helb.github.io/goodbye-sourceforge/
Anatomy of SourceForge/GIMP controversy (from GIMP team)
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/anatomy-of-sourceforge-gimp-controversy
What happened to Sourceforge? (from VLC developer)
https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/
I looked into which projects SF.net hijacked, and surprisingly found
Apache HTTPD, Apache Derby, Apache Directory Studio, Firefox, MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Nmap, The R-project.
Apache HTTPD, Apache Derby, Apache Directory Studio, Nmap, R
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor3/profile/
GIMP, VLC
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/
Firefox, MySQL, PostgreSQL
http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor/profile/
So who's next? Apache OpenOffice? When will there be a new
malware/adware-enabled Apache OpenOfffice installer? I suppose we
should move from SF.net to a trustworthy mirror solution.
Roberto Galoppini on 2015/06/02 04:50 said:
> Hi again Louis,
>
> 2015-06-01 21:47 GMT+02:00 Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Roberto,
>> See these:
>>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/
>>
>
> It's not up-to-date, GIMP (and every other mirror project) has been
> unbundled few days ago. Just as I stated above. Also if you follow dev@ you
> know that by the facts we remove unwanted or misleading ads in hours.
>
>
>
>>
>> http://danluu.com/slashdot-sourceforge/
>>
>
> It seems like this is not up-to-date too, as far as I know Slashdot editor
> after the week-end catched up with everything, included this. Of course
> there is as usual space for conspirancy theories, but you understand I
> can't help with that.
>
> Unless you have something else I think I've covered everything, if you or
> someone else has more questions I'll be happy to answer.
>
> Roberto
>
>
>>
>> I don’t think that seeing this as a "fuss" and deprecating it as
>> unimportant or trivial (in some way) either because it’s a storm in a
>> teacup or old news or misinterpreted news is useful to us or to SF.
>>
>> louis
>>
>>
>>> On 01 Jun 2015, at 15:31, Roberto Galoppini <roberto.galopp...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Louis,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure I've read most of it, not sure to which one you're
>> referring to.
>>> But yes, I'm pretty sure that was done with only (very) few SourceForge
>> abandoned project for just some days.
>>>
>>> Roberto
>>>
>>> 2015-06-01 21:25 GMT+02:00 Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com>:
>>> Roberto,
>>>
>>>
>>> Surely you have also gone over the US press and now also reddit
>> discussions? In which it seems as if SF is not always waiting for
>> abandonment?
>>>
>>> louis
>>>> On 01 Jun 2015, at 15:23, Roberto Galoppini <
>> roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick clarification on the topic. Not long time ago Simon
>> himself wrote an article saying good things of the DevShare program, see
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2610419/open-source-software/retro-repo-sourceforge-learns-new-tricks.html
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, recently SourceForge tested the program on few
>> SourceForge projects that were abandoned by the original developers and
>> kept updated by our editorial team or bots. Given the community reactions
>> the company decided to quit such tests for good.
>>>>
>>>> A company statement clarifying it further will be made public soon,
>> beyond the fuss nothing has really changed as of now.
>>>>
>>>> Roberto
>>>>
>>>> 2015-06-01 20:40 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com>:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
>>>> Just a FYI:
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/webmink/status/605422600970510338
>>>>
>>>> I fully expect that somehow this will be used as ammunition
>>>> against AOO, due to our "reliance" on them as a major download
>>>> partner.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like they are recycling old news or something. The whole
>> opt-in advertising brouhaha occurred a few years ago, We did not opt-in,
>> so it was not an issue for us. Sounds like GIMP first opted-in, then
>> opted-out, but it is not clear whether as a community they spoke with one
>> voice and whether it was clear to SF whose voice represented the
>> community. Apache projects have a governance model and a decision making
>> process that makes that kind of misunderstanding less likely.
>>>>
>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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