I agree...SourceForge is an excellent resource for open source programs and if they need to be advertiser-supported, what's the harm? The slick interface with the paid promoters of product on the site is a bit disconcerting at first, but once you get used to it, it's not so bad...
Doug Hovelson [email protected] 612-722-5501 Telephone 612-605-2296 Fax Public Relations Specialist Big Thunder Public Relationshttp://www.bigthunderpr.com > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:23:34 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ditching our mirror system for an inferior solution? > > I wasn't even aware that SF now also hosts the executables downloads > until somebody posted a question on the oooforum that he couldn't make > it past the SourceForge start page - it turned out that he hadn't > enabled Javascript for SF. I tried a download and my only gripe was that > the download dialog box took a while to appear and in the meantime a > download for some other program was eh, offered in a way that you > couldn't overlook, so to speak, and that did, as it were, look like it > was all you were going to get on that page. ;-) If that could be speeded > up a bit, that would raze the only objection I have against the current > procedure. > Honestly, while we are all volunteering our time and money (think of > electricity bills) to contribute to the OOo project, it's up to each of > us to decide how much time and money we're prepared to spend on it, but > we aren't entitled to decide that for other people. I've downloaded a > lot from SourceForge in the past and I don't object to them trying to at > least cover the expenses of offering free downloads by advertising. With > all the other commercial websites that offer OOo bundled with loads of > suspicious other stuff that we get complaints about on the user forums > SourceForge will be /one/ external download site that we /won't/ have to > worry about. > Peter aka floris v >
