SourceForge seized GIMP for Windows' account

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#1

Well, today I found out that SourceForge, once the trusted provider for open source software, seized GIMP for Windows’ account, blocked developer Jernej Simončič’s account, and changed the byline to “sf-editor1”. Not to mention they’ve now bundled gimp with some stupid adware. They claim the account was abandoned, but they’ve pulled stuff like this before. So yeah. What do you think about this?

EDIT: “sf-editor1” has also claimed the following projects:

  • Most of the Apache Foundation’s projects—including Allura, Derby, Directory Studio, the Apache HTTP server, - Hadoop, OpenOffice, Solr, and Subversion;
  • The Mozilla Project’s Firefox, Thunderbird, and FireFTP;
  • The Evolution and Open-Xchange mail clients;
  • The Drupal and WordPress content management systems;
  • The Eclipse, Aptana, Komodo, MonoDevelop, and NetBeans integrated development environments;
  • The VLC, Audacious, Banshee.fm, Helix, and Tomahawk media players;
  • The Reaver WPS Wi-Fi hacking tool;
#2

I would never download anything from SF, I don’t know much about the site but it seems like one of those sites where they require you to use their “installer” to download the program you want… and spew spam all across your hard drive.

But maybe I’m wrong, I’ve never really used it.

#3

I have a project on Sourceforge, about 12 years old and long abandoned. Hopefully sf-editor1 will pick up the project and keep it going “for the community”.

SF used to be cool. As Marylin Manson says, flies will lay their eggs…

#4

He should take the source to GitHub and publicly shame Sourceforge.

#5

As of this writing, gimp.org’s main page has blog posts about this.

Here’s an ArsTechnica article on the issue.

This saddens me. I though SourceForge was above this kind of thing. Oh well…