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Submission + - Sourceforge staff takes over a user's account and wraps their software installer (arstechnica.com) 11

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Sourceforge staff took over the account of the GIMP-for-Windows maintainer claiming it was abandoned and used this opportunity to wrap the installer in crapware. Quoting Ars:

SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.

Comment Re:Wasn't Java open sourced? (Score 2) 223

by Lunix Nutcase on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:30AM (#49790177) Attached to: US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle

Because open sourcing has nothing to do with giving up copyright. Sun didn't give up their copyright when GPLing it and Orcale now holds it.

Comment Re:Can we have another poll? (Score 4, Insightful) 246

by Lunix Nutcase on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:24PM (#49788089) Attached to: In a 5-star rating scheme, the new Mad Max film ...

Upshot is that just like other submissions, and position on the page aside, we're going to run polls that the editors think are a good idea

How is that an upshot? No one was asking for this "feature".

Comment Re:Why (Score 1) 246

by Lunix Nutcase on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:21PM (#49788073) Attached to: In a 5-star rating scheme, the new Mad Max film ...

Because the Slashdot code monkeys are absolutely horrendous at making a decent UI.

Comment Re:negativity (Score 1) 246

by Lunix Nutcase on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:16PM (#49788039) Attached to: In a 5-star rating scheme, the new Mad Max film ...

Timothy really isn't that bad.

Except for everything related to being an "editor". He's absolutely horrendous at that.

Comment Re:48GB?! (Score 1) 107

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @08:59PM (#49771909) Attached to: Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked

It's not and they didn't say it was. Chris Roberts worked at Origin. That was the joke.

Comment Re:sad state of affairs (Score 1) 113

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:37PM (#49770075) Attached to: Privacy Behaviors Changed Little After Snowden

It's sad that people are more concerned with what companies are doing with their information than the government.

Because people aren't allowed to be concerned about both things? Why this false dichotomy?

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:01PM (#49769841) Attached to: Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices

and they still do not allow the default email or browser app to be changed.

No, but companies can do like what Google does and just tightly integrate all your apps together where clicking something in one launches another one of your apps to handle it.

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:57PM (#49769821) Attached to: Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices

Are "alternate webkit-based browsers" capable of adding support for HTML5 elements and attributes that Apple chose to leave out of WebKit for iOS? Are they allowed to associate themselves with the http: and https: schemes?

No. Hence why I said that they can't have a third-party web engine. They have to use the system-provided WebKit.

I didn't think so.

And I never said they could so I don't see the relevance.

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:53PM (#49769789) Attached to: Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices

Apple do indeed (still) have an infrequently enforced policy about competing apps

Such as?

That there are lots of alternative web browsers based on their webkit does not suggest 'competing' browsers, because those browsers are unable to meaningfully compete.

They can't compete on the rendering engine, sure, but users don't actually give two shits about that. The browsers compete on the other features they can provide.

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:19PM (#49769573) Attached to: Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices

Apple doesn't allow any application competing with their own as far as I know

And what you know amounts to very little apparently. When was the last time you heard anything about iOS? 2009? What Apple doesn't allow is third-party web engines, but they allow alternate webkit-based browsers. There are probably hundreds of such applications in the App Store.

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 3, Insightful) 90

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @01:27PM (#49769219) Attached to: Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices

The problem is that they are essentially rudderless without Google's yearly handouts. If Mozilla had diversified their revenue long ago they wouldn't be in this situation of throwing tons of shit at the wall to see what sticks.

Comment Re:Think that's impressive? (Score 1) 207

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @12:50PM (#49768963) Attached to: Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44%

If they had compelling content people would pay for it directly. Sites like ehow and Buzzfeed create crap but can stay around due to clickbait spam.

Comment Re:Think that's impressive? (Score 5, Insightful) 207

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @10:30AM (#49768087) Attached to: Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44%

No what will happen is shitty sites full of fluff and click bait will go out of business. Nothing of value will be lost.

Comment Re:End-to-end encryption cannot come fast enough. (Score 1) 104

by Lunix Nutcase on Monday May 25, 2015 @09:17AM (#49767737) Attached to: San Bernardino Sheriff Has Used Stingray Over 300 Times With No Warrant

Why is this modded up? Stingrays are mostly for metadata capture. End-to-end encryption is completely orthogonal to that.

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