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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by MereInterest on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:48AM (#25941666)
SourceForge is still around, but since they were caught adding adware/malware to downloads (2015, I think), I wouldn't trust them at all.
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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by eitland on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:54AM (#25941724)
They've since changed ownership and the new owner seemed to put a lot of effort into cleaning it up.
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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by toyg on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:11AM (#25941939)
I had the same feeling, but just the other day I found that a bunch of pretty critical stuff (the underpinnings of very popular NAS solutions like openmendiavault) is still rooted there. They also seem to have dialed down their "ADS ADS ADS!!!!!111!" strategy, probably as a result of that scandal and subsequent takeover.

I'm still pissed at Filezilla for jumping on that particular adware bandwagon though...

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