5 Jun
2015
5 Jun
'15
3:52 p.m.
Have any of you heard about SourceForge's recent takeover/highjacking of GIMP for Windows and Nmap? This was a bit of a shocker to me. It seems to be a way of forcing the inclusion of adware in downloads, for popular projects that don't agree to it.
https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe - GIMP http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194 - Nmap
The beginning of the end for a former open source champion? So sad when short-term thinking takes over.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)