Though he didn't complain about the software itself, he complained about the way it's hosted. Different concerns. And in today's world, SourceForge is liked less than GitHub from what I've noticed.

Sourceforge has inserted adware into projects' downloads in the past. It's also a ghost town and I wonder what sort of resources (if any) they have working on the site to keep it secure. This is a big concern when the software they're hosting is as security-sensitive as a VPN package.

Adding adware to gzipped and signed source code would be a bit hard. That's the onl;y thing the authors serve from sourceforge.net.

I think he's referring to this: http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...

Their Senior Director of Business Development, Roberto Galoppini, said this in the comments to the link above:

"Developers opt in and are compensated, they are in control both of the installer behavior and of what sort of secondary offerings will be presented to their user base. Moreover they are not asked to integrate their application with a third parties' piece of code, and maintaining a bundled and unbundled version is trivial for them.

End-users are provided with a transparent installer behavior, all programs are malware-free and honestly described. All uninstall procedures are extensively tested, both for open source applications and third parties' offerings."

> Senior Director of Business Development

Ah, "professional management"… the beginning of the end of any good company.

You're conflating light sarcastic teasing with pissing and moaning.

Anyway, I'd still complain if someone tried to serve me free food on a dirty plate.