After further consideration, and Mc's pointing out past hackings, I think also "no".
I also dislike adverts on download pages as they can be used to trick the visitor into downloading something they didn't intend to, or go somewhere they don't want to go. -C On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:30 PM Marc Jeanmougin <m...@jeanmougin.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 10/24/18 7:43 PM, docto...@gmail.com wrote: > > Our proposal: Use FossHub as the primary download mirror, […] > > > I would not agree with that. > > > (0) They are free to host a mirror of our files (which they already do : > https://www.fosshub.com/Inkscape.html * ), > > but > > (1) we already have fastly as a powerful CDN [so we don't really "need" > the service]; > > (2) Their business model of having an advertisement banner to get income > is opposed to my principles (also, I'm not sure how much traffic we > would send them, but 20k$ is like 4M views which we would probably send > over a year (Martin, do you know how many yearly page views we have on > the /releases/ section of the website ?) ); so in addition it would look > financially strictly worse than putting an ad on inkscape.org > > (3) Their policies** are sort of restrictive and very much > script-unfriendly > > (4) Loss of control over the files served, from us (not our website) and > for people in general (served from a website that is afaik not open > source*** while our website is) > > (5) Centralization of official (primary) downloads places for > high-profile open source software makes for high-profile targets. They > were already pwnd 2 years ago**** when their major hosted projects was > Audacity, with unsalted password exposed and people downloading malware. > > -- > > Mc > > > > > *: « Inkscape is a source vector graphics software that took nearly half > a decade to create. The program is supposed to compete with Adobe® > Illustrator®, yet many users claim that it falls short of Adobe® high > standard. » > > **: https://www.fosshub.com/faq.html#fh-tou-o1 > > ***: and using direct web requests to cloudflare, google, adsense, and > onesignal analytics while we only use "inkscape.org" requests > > ****: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/05/pegglecrew_we_hacked_fosshub_so_ransomware_scum_couldnt_and_also_for_fun/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board >
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