Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
by thanksDr on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:41PM
(#19330129)
Devs get better by learning from mistakes.
Sourceforge is a hostile source of malware : https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May...
You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast.
Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
by detaro on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:44PM
(#19330154)
was, not is. Sourceforge has changed hands since then.
Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
by duxup on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:57PM
(#19330320)
Yeah my understanding is after it changed hands they did away with all the nasty stuff that happened in the past.
Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
by miles on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:04PM
(#19330384)
That was true back in 2015. New owners have been cleaning it up since 2016:
Under new management, SourceForge moves to put badness in past https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
by throwawaymath on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:51PM
(#19330247)
> You mock those who desire freedom at your own risk. Github is microsoft now, and supporting it feeds the beast.
Oh no, it's the 90s and Micro$oft is evil! They're going to embrace, extend, extinguish all my open source software! I won't be free to develop software anymore!
I'm quite happy with Microsoft, and if supporting GitHub "feeds the beast", then I'm likewise happy to see that beast well-fed.
Let me guess: you also dislike GitHub because it's closed, and wish people would distribute software from their own, self-hosted git repositories?