Thanks for reporting the 'Jar Of Beans' project. I was looking for a competent Android emulator earlier today and located the very same XDA thread, along with a few others that lead me to believe that not only should this application be banned, but "UnrealManu" (the author) should be banned from XDA, and should face cybercrimes charges for surreptitiously attempting to infect the systems of all who downloaded his installer.
Personally, I think it's a shame that the author of that software lives in Italy, because if he lived in the US, he would be facing jail time for this. I haven't personally downloaded his app, partly because it was pulled before I discovered the forum discussion where he pulled it because no one was willing to install his spyware, but mostly because it appears that the author knowingly implanted the malware into his installer and then goes on the throw a fit about it. One of the forum posts made a perfect point in saying "Why didn't you simply charge money for it, if you were wanting money? Adding Spyware is no way to get that" (I'm paraphrasing here, from memory, so that was the gist, but not the literal text). Another user mentioned something in regards to "why was he releasing a project like that on XDA, when XDA is a sight for open source projects?", which I also totally agree with. I've been an open source advocate and user for nearly 20 years now, and there's very little in this community that angers me more than when someone tries to subvert our cause, knowingly or not, by offering malware in the guise of Open Source or Free software. It's bad for the community and bad for the movement as a whole. I know first hand, because I work as a systems engineer for a state government, and I've often had to go on the the record in defense of choosing Open Source software for projects where it was a much more capable and appropriate fit than any available commercial-ware. So again, thank you. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code-hosting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
