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Re:The one who kept VLC free by jacquesm on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:53AM (#21070770)
It didn't help that at some point on of the main distribution points for FOSS shipped archives stuffed with malware that the authors had no idea about.
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Re:The one who kept VLC free by phkahler on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:44AM (#21071249)
Yeah, I used to place some trust in programs under certain licenses, or downloaded from that place. Now the license is a hard requirement and so is not being from that place.
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Re:The one who kept VLC free by lone_haxx0r on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:55PM (#21086977)
Do you mean Sourceforge, Softonic or both?
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