Peter Tonoli: > On 8/13/13, 1:41 AM, Ω ✭ wrote: >> >> On 2013-08-10, at 11:42 AM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Randolph, please stop calling your thing "torbrowser". I hope no users >>> are stupid enough to think they should get their Tor Browser Bundle from >>> you, but your choice of name makes it clear that you're not trying to >>> be a member of the Tor community. >> >> Further to that point, that project's site at >> http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net makes an effort to further confuse >> users by mimicking the official Tor Project website, albeit poorly. I >> think this kind of deception raises some pretty major red flags >> regarding the goals of the 'torbrowser'. > > Perhaps, if there's so much concern about this SourceForge project, list > users could create one star reviews on the project page at > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/torbrowser/>, and put 'fake' or similar > in the comments?? > > According to the project page, there were over 300 downloads this week, > and it's been rated an everage of 4.4 out of 5. > > My 2 cents.
It would be more effective if The Tor Project contacted sourceforge and complained. I suggest to open a public ticket, for transparency, so everyone can see what sourceforge replies. From experience, sourceforge is replies quite fast and act reasonable. As a lazy solution, just use the contact form. Link to their public ticket system or contact form are here: http://sourceforge.net/support This has been suggested by me some time ago already. I don't understand why The Tor Project complaints about sourceforge.net/projects/torbrowser, but doesn't contact sourceforge. Do you think its going to be complicated? -> No, just sign up and open a ticket (trac). Do you think it takes a lot time? -> Not more than any other signup / ticket opening and if time is that crucial, use the contact form which doesn't even need registration. Do you think sourceforge will refuse? -> Don't expect the worst. Its theoretically possible, but I think they are acting in good faith. More likely that they ask the project to rename and if they don't do it and you remind them a week later, they deactivate the project until they change. From all the hard Tor problems, this won't be one of this, no lawyer required. Actually an easy task. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
