The Gimp anuncia que se va de SourceForge (lo cito todo porque
los de Gimp no son capaces de suministrar un enlace individual a la
noticia):
In the past few months, we have received some complaints about the
site where the GIMP installers for the Microsoft Windows platforms
are hosted.
SourceForge, once a useful and trustworthy place to develop and host
FLOSS applications, has faced a problem with the ads they allow on
their sites - the green "Download here" buttons that appear on many,
many adds leading to all kinds of unwanted utilities have been
spotted there as well.
The tipping point was the introduction of their own SourceForge
Installer software, which bundles third-party offers with Free
Software packages. We do not want to support this kind of behavior,
and have thus decided to abandon SourceForge.
From now on, Jernej Simončič, who provides the installer packages,
uploads them to our FTP directly, and from there they will be
distributed automatically to our mirrors. Please check Downloads page
for updated information. http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net will remain
active for the time being and direct users to the new download
locations
La política de SourceForge le está haciendo un flaco favor al software
libre con estas prácticas comerciales. Si yo tuviera un proyecto allí,
me pensaría seriamente en moverlo a otro lado.
Otro tema van a ser los proyectos que "yacen" abandonados en
SourceForge. Habría que pensar en salvaguardarlos de algún modo, ya que
con la actual política comercial, dudo que a SF le queden muchos años de
vida. Y hay gran cantidad de software libre alojado allí.
:wq