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Submission + - SF Says AdWare Bundled with Gimp Is Intentional (google.com) 5

Submitted by tresf on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:57AM

tresf writes: In response to a Google+ post from the Gimp project claiming that "[Sourceforge] is now distributing an ads-enabled installer of GIMP", Sourceforge had this response:

In cases where a project is no longer actively being maintained, SourceForge has in some cases established a mirror of releases that are hosted elsewhere. This was done for GIMP-Win.
Editor's note: Gimp is actively being maintained and the definition of "mirror" is quite misleading here as a modified binary is no longer a verbatim copy. Download statistics for Gimp on Windows show SourceForge as offering over 1,000 downloads per day of the Gimp software. In an official response to this incident, the official Gimp project team reminds users to use official download methods. Slashdotters may remember the last time news like this surfaced (2013) when the Gimp team decided to move downloads from SourceForge to their own FTP service.
Therefore, we remind you again that GIMP only provides builds for Windows via its official Downloads page.

Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent.

Comment Debian also filters ads ! (Score 1) 381

by Valeryan_24 on Sunday May 12, 2013 @07:09PM (#43704811) Attached to: Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download

Debian - the wellknown Linux distribution - did the same on the last stable version just recently released, Wheezy - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

The addon Adblock Plus is installed and enabled by default on the Iceweasel (ie Firefox) browser, with EasyList filter activated :
http://i.imgur.com/g0pMEaX.png - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693160

Even if I use some ads and tracking blockers, too (when there are animated banners, or sound, or to protect my privacy), IMHO it should be only the user who decides to put them, not the OS supplier, because it has an incidence on the web sites and numeric economy...

Submission + - OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach! (kickstarter.com) 5

Submitted by JonOomph on Monday April 15, 2013 @12:07PM

JonOomph writes: The popular open source video editor, OpenShot, has less than 39 hours remaining on popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter.com. The lead developer, Jonathan Thomas, has proposed a revolutionary new feature, which would allow users to offload CPU, memory, and disk cache to a local server (or multiple local servers), dramatically increasing the speed of previewing and rendering. The more servers added to the pool, the faster the video editing engine becomes (with the primary limitation being network bandwidth). If the final goal of $40k is reached in the remaining hours, this feature will be added to the next version of OpenShot.

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