LL download from sourcdeforege

[anon222]

SourceForge used to be my go-to place for downloading VLC, Linux Lite and many other open source projects. Not anymore. SF has hijacked accounts and used them for their own benefit, without permission from the account owner / maintainer.

GIMP's Windows account has gotten hijacked and SF put revenue-generating adware with the regular installer for GIMP.  It's not just GIMP, either.

According to Ars Technica, these projects recently got hijacked by a SF staff member by the name of "sf-editor1"

• Nearly all of the Apache Foundation Projects - OpenOffice, Apache HTTP Server, etc.
  
• Mozilla Projects - Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey
  
• Drupal & WordPress Content Management Systems
  
• And more in the article link below...
  

http://arstechnica.com/information-techn...ng-adware/

I've had it with SF. They have basically become FileHippo, but much worse.

Please Jerry, I BEG YOU, move off of SourceForge! Use GitHub or FossHub

As far I can see SourceForge is taking over the accounts that are abandoned by their respective owners.
Then SF packs new versions of software (without the consent of the software maintainers) into installers that install addwares on people's PCs along with the software.
For now this affects only software for Windows.
Well, it's just wrong to push the addware to people along with the software. It's like getting a box of chocolates and a cockroach.
Secondly, they are doing that without the consent of the software maintainers. Not a nice thing to do but it's a free software and anyone can redistribute.
Wrapping it into installers and adding bunch of addware or spyware must be a profitable thing to do, otherwise SF wouldn't do it.
That also backfires at them as a reliable place for downloading the software, and also harms their reputation. It also harms the software name and reputation.
As for Linux Lite, stay safe, always do checksums when downloading the ISO files. Don't add software from unreliable sources and personal package archives (PPA's).
Be carefull about installing *.deb files you downloaded from the internet. It's better to use the one that's allready in the software repositories.
If you see Linux Lite iso wrapped into something like installer avoid it by all means. It might not affect the Linux Lite itself but can easily affect Windows.