BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> -=> KY MOFFET wrote to KY MOFFET<=-
> You're talking to yourself again!<g>
I'm having an identity crisis. <g>
> KM> Speaking of CNet adding adware/malware to installer packages --
> KM> since SourceForge was acquired by Dice Holdings, they've been
> KM> doing the same -- and worse, hijacking major projects:
> KM> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/05/28/091238
> IMO advertising is fine but leave it to the side of the main article,
> not stick it in the product like CNet, SourceForge and probably a few
> others are doing with their installers. Thanks for the reference, I'll
Softpedia too.
> download from these sites even less (sometimes they are the only
> source).
Yeah, and very often your choices are
1) Sourceforge
2) Somewhere worse
3) Nowhere else
When possible I pull files direct from the author's site, but not
everyone hosts their own files.
And come to mention it, we probably need to pull Fusion off of there, if
it hasn't already been "Claimed".
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