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fenixproductions:
My question is: what prevents us from other free cloud companies taking over "our"  stuff?

Jibz:
Some download sites also have "editors" who create pages for software that look like the author put them there. I've had this happen with BrotherSoft for instance.

Renegade:
My question is: what prevents us from other free cloud companies taking over "our"  stuff?
-fenixproductions (June 06, 2015, 02:21 AM)
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Nothing.

Which is one of the reasons that I've been periodically screaming, ranting, and cursing for years about "the cloud" and "SaaS" and all that other crap.

Very often "free" should make you turn tail and RUN!

ewemoa:
FWIW:

In an effort to address a number of concerns we have been hearing from
the media and community at large, we at SourceForge would like to note
that we have stopped presenting third party offers for unmaintained
SourceForge projects.

While we had recently tested presenting easy-to-decline third party
offers with a very small number of unmaintained SourceForge projects,
we discontinued this practice promptly based on negative community
feedback.  At this time, we present third party offers only with a few
projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or
if the project is already bundling third party offers.

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via https://sourceforge.net/blog/third-party-offers-will-be-presented-with-opt-in-projects-only/

TaoPhoenix:

That's a bit of an odd wording. I'll try chopping it up a bit:

"
(While we had recently)

tested {{testing what?}} presenting

(easy-to-decline)

third party offers

(with a very small number of unmaintained SourceForge projects,)

we discontinued this practice promptly based on negative community
feedback.
"

Let's see:

- Surprisingly clear actual language, and not buried in mountains of biz speak
- Let's assume the last line is not a lie
- "third party offers" doesn't contain "over-sell words" like "valuable offers"

So then the main "missing animal behind the curtain" is what were they testing ... and what did they *predict* about the negative community feedback?

I'll leave it open ended for a bit there for y'all.

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