SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Last week, we mentioned that the GIMP project had elected to leave SourceForge as its host, citing SourceForge's advertising policies. SourceForge (which shares a parent company with Slashdot) has released a statement about those policies, addressing in particular both ads that are confusing in themselves and their revenue-sharing system called DevShare, based on the provision of third-party software along with users' downloads. Among other things, the SF team is appealing to users to help them find and block misleading ads, and has this to say about the additional downloads: "The DevShare program has been designed to be fully transparent. The installation flow has no deceptive steps, all offers are fully disclosed, and the clear option to completely decline the offer is always available. All uninstallation procedures are exhaustively documented, and all third party offers go through a comprehensive compliance process to make sure they are virus and malware free."
People still use Sourceforge? (Score:2, Funny)
SVN is lame; Gimp is where it's at, baby.
Github is 6th Street. Sourceforge is the old Main Street, with mostly boarded-up buildings.
Re:Missing the point (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing personal but it seems kind of ironic coming from someone named twocows....