On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Florian Jung wrote: > Dear MusE-Team, > > I always wanted to move over to GitHub, I already felt a faint dislike > against sourceforge, but could not name it. > > Now I can. > > http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ > > tl;dr: sourceforge is now owned by a company named Dice, and have > started to abuse their users' trust. When you want to download > windows-installers from certain sf.net-hosted projects, you're now > getting a "drive by" download, which installs actually more stuff than > you want. > > In particular, it adds ad- and spyware to your computer, e.g. in form of > the Ask.com toolbar, "registry cleaners" etc., if you not explicitly > decline this (the average user usually only clicks on the big green > "Install" button). I verified this, it's true. And the installer is > digitally signed by Ask.com, most users won't even notice. > > Alarmed by this, I browsed around on sourceforge.net a bit, and found > more things which I didn't expect, like misleading ads and more > manipulated installers (without asking the project maintainers!). > > IMHO, sourceforge has turned from a good platform for open source > software into a monetarized place, using unprofessional techniques to > fool users into installing things they did not want. > I've lost my trust in them. Irrecoverably. > > > Let me quote the linked article: > "If you’re a developer or contributor to a SourceForge project, please > ask them to move to a new project host (there are several). And cease > all further involvement until it’s complete. [...]" > > I'm doing that herewith. I hope you agree with me that we should move > MusE over to github (or bitbucket or whatever) as soon as possible. > > I do not want to support a platform which feels like taking such > measures, and I will volunteer to do the migration to, let's say, GitHub > + muse-sequencer.org. >
Hello, I am trying hard to stay on the positive side .Maybe this way, sourceforge helps people realize that their Windows OS is crap, and they need to look for an alternative. That said, I am okay either way. I don't understand, though, why anyone would want to download binaries from an open source code hosting website. Best, Orcan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
