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.
Insomnia has its downsides
Sometimes I'd rather respond as if a comment is innocently asked, because the answer might be useful to everyone, whether the original post is intended as a troll or just asked out of a bad mood / misplaced cynicism. (The world has plenty to be aptly cynical about!)
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"