Date: 4/6/2015
Tags: open-source | You may or may not already be aware of this but SourceForge has started taking control of popular apps that have abandoned their SourceForge project and moved elsewhere for the purpose of injecting adware into the installer for said products. The Gimp and nmap are some high profile examples.
This of course goes directly against my principles. And I can't in good conscience continue to use SourceForge to host any of my Open Source apps or libraries. So as of today Lgi, i.Ftp, i.Mage and i.Hex are all hosted on Github.
I need some experience using git anyway.
My main concern is that I can't actually delete the projects on SourceForge, and they may decide to take them over and zombify them in the same manner as the Gimp. There is very little I can do about that unfortunately. Personally I will consider SourceForge as a point of last resort when getting software.
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