If you're interested in helping to contact DHI Group Inc. for SF's potential violation of their Code of Ethics, gathering evidence, and sending the message to the greater mirroring community that wrapping FOSS projects in malware without the creator's consent is unacceptable, there is a board set up at 8chan.net (an open-source Freedom-respecting imageboard) to help coordinate efforts, evidence, and discussion. Though it is still in its infancy, we are in need of people who care about the public image of FOSS and want to see Sourceforge and other responsible parties held accountable beyond a temporary PR fiasco.

https://8ch.net/sourcefraud/

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If you're interested in helping to contact DHI Group Inc. for SF's potential violation of their Code of Ethics, gathering evidence, and sending the message to the greater mirroring community that wrapping FOSS projects in malware without the creator's consent is unacceptable, there is a board set up at 8chan.net (an open-source Freedom-respecting imageboard) to help coordinate efforts, evidence, and discussion. Though it is still in its infancy, we are in need of people who care about the public image of FOSS and want to see Sourceforge and other responsible parties held accountable beyond a temporary PR fiasco.

https://8ch.net/sourcefraud/

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The bones of the site are up. I will add more information the coming days, but from what I am gathering the bee hive has already been kicked - we just need to organize and direct that energy somewhere that it can do some good - at advertisers and higher-ups. Make them hurt where it counts.

https://8ch.net/sourcefraud/ca...

I am not "That good" in the manner which we're speaking, either. We will have to hope that we can get this some attention from people who want to protect the image of FOSS and actually are "that good" to take a look, or see what we might be able to learn as we go along.

Updates to come later.

Alright, the board has been made, but before I start to spread it around, I need to create a board sticky and do some basic digging to provide some direction - you, or anybody else reading, can help out with this portion if you want, and post results here.

What I am going to be looking for is a list of advertising supporters and a list of university hosts, along with all of the associations stated Code of Ethics, as well as that of SourceForge. If (and I am positive that is actually a "when") violations are found, they will be cited properly, and after that, a list of email addresses for relevant people to email will be grouped into a document and linked to in that sticky. That's where the emails come in. Citing the Code of Ethics violations, investigations will be launched by those respective institutions, and when enough people make a splash, that's when heads start to turn, and change starts to happen.

Unfortunately this is happening on today of all days, and I am tied up with obligations, but I fully intend to have a functional sticky very soon. I will update you within 24 hours, with at least some research done, if you are willing to actually pursue this and assist in spreading the word here in the comments section and elsewhere in the FOSS community. If you aren't actually interested, please let me know.

Maybe we need to find a place to congregate that respects user's freedoms to discuss it. I know 8chan enables board creation, does not log IP addresses for more than 24 hours, and respects the 1st amendment to the full extent that it is legal. A board could be created there to organize.

Maybe it's time to start emailing some advertisers to expose corruption in Tech journalism?

I don't think that he would have made any sort of fuss about this entire ordeal, nor would he have lied on the grave of his mother just to give it to another person. People out there aren't heartless monsters 24/7, you know.

"Get off my lawn you selfless charitable bastards!", "Misogyny!" , etc., etc.

If we gave them improved laser weaponry, maybe they would let us ship them all to space to destroy the space debris.

(Please forget to include a return capsule)

I suppose where I disagreed with you was with your statement,

"Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak were part of the Digital Revolution where they wanted to decentralize data and put computers in the hands of the people."

Which is a contradictory statement.

Once the above companies stop supporting their software, it becomes insecure, and because it is closed-source, we are forced to upgrade. That's software centralization and control if there ever was such a thing.

Perhaps unwittingly, we both bought into the idea (at least in the scope of this discussion) that the software they offered was ever "ours" to begin with. That their offerings were ever "in the hands of the people" which non-free software certainly isn't.

So the "Centralized software" idea is already farther along than I realized initially, and perhaps farther along than you realized initially. What it isn't, is sandboxed; a good suggestion.

So the centralization aspects would be functional in a manner that you suggest, but only under two conditions:
1) it is GNU/Free as in GNU/Freedom (lol)
2) Private

and for sandboxing, clearly the only option is to get rid of things like systemd. Like that one guy's sig, "If anyone knows why GNOME chose to depend on systemd, please tell me." If we don't know why, we don't have control, if we don't have control, etc., etc.

So I think we've reached an understanding, here.

Fantastic compilation of software suggestions. I hope this comment becomes a sticky on some related website or forum for such problems. Bravo!

"centralized locations are good" " they wanted to decentralize data and put computers in the hands of the people. Now it looks like we need a backlash."

Would you happen to be selling a Cloud "App" or Subscription-Based software service perchance? All I need to do is sign up now for a 10% discount** to a program I won't have to do anything to maintain, right?

I can see that you have a point, but right now, with the state of privacy what it is, air-gapped or firewalled local area networks and local storage are the most secure places for my data, as far as I'm concerned. No grandma is going to set up a Home "mainframe-style architecture" to look at cats on the internet. She would sooner sign up for MS Windows "We Promise*** it's safe**** with us" Edition for all of her OS and "App" needs, and with internet speeds becoming faster, I fear that your suggested model is one we are moving toward.

**Discount may not be combined with any other offer or personal/technological freedom of any kind

***MS not liable for any violations of privacy

****Not safe from any advertising agency or governmental inquiries

Don't you already operate the phone with your hand? I kid, you make a valid and important point.

"...munching matter at close to the maximum physically possible rate for most of it's existence." One of their physicists must be really good at yo momma jokes.