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GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads
Dangerous_Minds writes "GIMP, a free and open source alternative to image manipulation software like Photoshop, recently announced that it will no longer be distributing their program through SourceForge. Citing some of the ads as reasons, they say that the tipping point was 'the introduction of their own SourceForge Installer software, which bundles third-party offers with Free Software packages. We do not want to support this kind of behavior, and have thus decided to abandon SourceForge.' The policy changes were reported back in August by Gluster. GIMP is now distributing their software via their own FTP page instead." Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent.
GIMP can't do CMYK, so WHO CARES??
Why on earth would you use FTP in this day and age? It's garbage designed for pre-Internet networks. It doesn't even define how file listings work, clients have to use heuristics to guess at how to interpret them. It's got a weird two-connection model that doesn't play nice with firewalls. It should have died a long time ago.
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better than the alternative which is governments fucking everyone for nothing
nobody notices or cares : )
Yeah, there's plenty of government screwing the people, but on the other hand...
Disaster relief... research... NASA... roads... the CDC... food inspections... the NWS... NOAA... you know, actual useful things... not exactly "nothing."
Try to point your finger at the actual problems rather than trying to paint the good and bad with the same brush. Then people may listen. Some of them, anyway.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.