I saw this a couple days ago. Not surprising really, sourceforge has felt a bit scummy for a while now, but I first really ran into it when trying to download filezilla, by default you get the "sourceforge download manager application". It didn't give me any adware/malware, but it's very unnerving when the exe you download isn't the program you wanted.

I avoid sourceforge these days, and with the number of ads and false download buttons I won't use it unless I can't get a program anywhere else.

Wyatt Zacharias

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Gilles Detillieux <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

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)

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