Re: [Gimp-developer] Sourceforge downloads

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>
wrote:

> On 05/27/2015 10:02 PM, Pat David wrote:
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/
> > SF claims abandonment of the project, and no response from the
> maintainer.
> > Of course, they may not consider a request to C&D the delivery of the
> > project as a "response"...
>
> Over all that, let's not forget the wrapper installers. Which seem to
> have been removed silently now - and are not being mentioned at all in
> their blog post.

The phrasing they use in the post is «Mirrored projects[those that they
take over] are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party
offers,».

What should happen is this:
1. take back control of the http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/
project page,
2. decommission the project (remove files, text, documents, etc).

It looks like SourceForge is too desperate to monetize since they have lost
their edge to github.
There is no future to Sourceforge.

Simos