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

Submitted by tresf on Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:57AM

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 Re:Better than facebook (Score 1) 1223

by avhell on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:20AM (#36732444) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

This is absolutely true. For those of us who don't want to wade through the inanity of fb wall posts, and who still go to more "traditional" methods of getting internet information, Reader integration is a must-have. I imagine it's coming before long, though.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 387

by avhell on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @10:05AM (#33369242) Attached to: First Review of <em>Avatar</em> Special Edition

I always thought it was "Opinions are like assholes. We've all got one, and everyone thinks everyone elses stinks."

Comment Re:Don't want to post OT but... (Score 1) 108

by avhell on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @02:55PM (#32969384) Attached to: Google Goes On Offensive vs. JavaScript Attacks

Going outside doesn't really help : plenty of ads there , and adblock doesn't work on them .

Not necessarily true (somewhat).

Comment The best explanation I've found so far... (Score 1) 197

by avhell on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @02:03PM (#28773287) Attached to: NASA's LRO Captures High-Res Pics of Apollo Landing Sites

is that the landing was faked by a studio on the moon

Comment Re:What does it mean to be Linux? (Score 1) 508

by avhell on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @04:58PM (#27578161) Attached to: He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux!

But The Great Unwashed Masses don't even know what Linux is yet.

The problem is that they will never know if we assume they must know about it beforehand... This does make me think about this commercial that IBM ran a few years back, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4&feature=related

Introducing the Slashdot Firehose 320

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:33PM from the who-wants-to-drink-from-the-firehose dept.

Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's partially a collaborative news system, partially a redesigned & dynamic next-generation Slashdot index. It's got a lot of really cool features, and a lot of equally annoying new problems for us to find and fix for the next few weeks. I've attached a rough draft of the FAQ to the end of this article. A quick read of it will probably answer most questions from how it works, what all the color codes mean, to what we intend to do with it.

Comment Previous rant about the same thing (Score 1) 236

by avhell on Saturday November 26, 2005 @11:23AM (#14118949) Attached to: The Economics of P2P File-Sharing

I had posted this a while back on my blog about similar issues: http://pdavid.sytes.net/blog/archives/36/

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