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Comment by alexnewman | Hacker News Reader

I wont use software on sourceforge. period.

I used to think that way too. But you may want to get up-to-date with the situation and reconsider - as others have mentioned, since changing owners, SF has been working hard to fix their conduct and reputation.

(Also, in this case: Joe is a classic, well-known piece of software.)

Why? Question mark.

I'd guess because of their bundling of relative malware (sometimes against devs knowledge).

https://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-downl...

Supposedly it's better now??

"We acquired SourceForge and Slashdot in January [2016] from DHI Group (also known as DICE). The first thing we did after we took over was remove bundled adware from projects: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut... and https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...

As of a few weeks ago, we also now scan for malware in case third party developers are adding their own adware: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-now-scans-all-proje... "

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

They haven't done that for a long time now, ever since they changed owner. The site is ugly and old fashioned, and a little spammy with the ads at times, but that's it.

If you invite me to a dinner party and I shit on the table it doesn't really matter how much I claim I'm reformed you're not going to invite me back unless you're really short on company. If there's any other source then there's no reason one would spend time checking out if sourceforge is really reformed or they just did a legal manoeuvre and started hiding the malware better.

They are now in better hands from what I read. Slashdot and Sourceforge were both acquired two years ago: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...

There's another thread about this where multiple replies say that the situation with SF is different now.

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