The DevShare program is the offers-based installer that's been pretty controversial in the open source community and has been discussed here previously (FileZilla bundling with their installer, GIMP Windows leaving SourceForge over it). Today, SourceForge has announced that they are re-evaluating and re-working the program and are suspending it with the current 3 members. In other words, it will remain running with those 3 members (FileZilla and 2 others I'm unsure of) but not accept new members until it's relaunched.
SourceForge also put out a call to folks to report misleading ads on the SourceForge site (fake download buttons, etc) with screenshots to blockthis@sourceforge.net so they can address them. These types of ads are the other reason GIMP pulled their Windows builds from SourceForge.
I thought the Hacker News community would be interested in this development.
Full disclosure: I run PortableApps.com, one of the largest projects on SourceForge. We do not participate in the DevShare program (PortableApps.com Format forbids add-on offers in our installer) but do participate in the SourceForge Accelerator Program which shares a percentage of ad revenue with hosters who use the SourceForge download buttons.
SourceForge also put out a call to folks to report misleading ads on the SourceForge site (fake download buttons, etc) with screenshots to blockthis@sourceforge.net so they can address them. These types of ads are the other reason GIMP pulled their Windows builds from SourceForge.
I thought the Hacker News community would be interested in this development.
Full disclosure: I run PortableApps.com, one of the largest projects on SourceForge. We do not participate in the DevShare program (PortableApps.com Format forbids add-on offers in our installer) but do participate in the SourceForge Accelerator Program which shares a percentage of ad revenue with hosters who use the SourceForge download buttons.