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Re:Don't download software from SourceForge if you can help it by jackmaney on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:13AM (#9692793)
> Very interesting! I'd be interested to hear the corporate-speak rationale for this.

I'm not affiliated with Sourceforge in any way, shape, or form--thank the fucking gods--but I suspect it would be something along the lines of "our downloader and associated offers are optimized to automatically use fewer resources in an environment, such as a VM, where computing resources are scarce."

Re:Don't download software from SourceForge if you can help it by ytdht on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:26PM (#9703287)
resources are also always limited on a single computer but most companies usually don't care because it is cheaper to use a higher level language