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SourceForge overtakes Open Source projects and uses them to distribute AdWare


Guest Hristo Radkov
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Guest Hristo Radkov

Avoid SourceForge.

 

ArsTechnica reports that SourceForge staff have overtaken numerous active open source projects and now is pushing AdWare with their Windows installers. 

 

SourceForge claim that the reason for them doing this is that the projects were abandoned and to save them SF is taking control.

 

The affected projects are:

 

- GIMP for Windows;

- Most of the Apache Foundation's projects—including Allura, Derby, Directory Studio, the Apache HTTP server, Hadoop, OpenOffice, Solr, and Subversion;

- The Mozilla Project's Firefox, Thunderbird, and FireFTP;

- The Evolution and Open-Xchange mail clients;

- The Drupal and WordPress content management systems;

- The Eclipse, Aptana, Komodo, MonoDevelop, and NetBeans integrated development environments;

- The VLC, Audacious, Banshee.fm, Helix, and Tomahawk media players;

- The Reaver WPS Wi-Fi hacking tool;

- and a host of games, utilities, and other applications.

 

 

Here is a link to the ArsTechnica article: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/

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This has actually been going on for *years* and is the result of SourceForge DevShare adware integration. They claim that it's a non-intrusive monetization, but it effectively eliminates the ability for offline downloading many apps unless you know the secret to getting the *real* installer. More here.

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