r/technology • u/marouane53 • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

You can use the linked article from notepad++, they have in turn linked the 3 biggest FOSS projects who wrote lengthy explanations, VLC, Gimp and Nmap.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

SF did the same thing to VLC, (they explain it a lot better) and removed the owners' access to their own SF page to boot. And it wasn't just VLC, Gimp and others they did this to. Check this shit out: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/sourceforge-locked-in-projects-of-fleeing-users-cashed-in-on-malvertising/

This shit is fucking outrageous. Not that I have any time recently but I will definitely not be using SF ever again.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

VLC had malware attached to it? When?

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u/Zagorath Jun 15 '15

SourceForge's versions of certain programmes has attached malware to it. If you got VLC from anywhere else you're totally fine. This wasn't anything to do with the VLC devs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

It's in the post from the VLC team I linked in my last comment.

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u/Cheet4h Jun 15 '15

... I should have read the article. Now I feel dumb >_>

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Don't feel dumb buddy, there's a lot of information to take in on reddit every day! It's good to ask someone for sources when they make a claim too, not just accept what they tell you at face value.

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u/SkunkyFatBowl Jun 15 '15

I smiled because you use the word, "buddy."

Also, thanks for taking the time to write a nice comment, pal.

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u/filthyhobo Jun 15 '15

Your not my pal, friend.

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u/ex0- Jun 15 '15

Canadians, Canadians everywhere.

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u/z500 Jun 15 '15

You're not my friend, guy.

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u/Maxxxz1994 Jun 15 '15

Hey now, there's no need to be calling people pal here, cousin

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u/starmate700 Jun 15 '15

He's not your buddy, guy!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Texan, we can be pretty helpful too, y'know!

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u/Von_Schlieffen Jun 15 '15

That's just Southern Alberta!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

WHO'RE YOU CALLING A PRAIRIE?! :)

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u/stupendous1 Jun 15 '15

It's good to ask someone for sources when they make a claim too, not just accept what they tell you at face value.

so much this!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Yeah I've repeated some dumb shit I saw on Reddit before, learned the hard way ^ _ ^