On 2008-06-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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> Microsoft & Sourceforge
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>| So here?s how to get involved: If you?re a project contributor, maintainer,
>| or user ? visit http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08/ - Select ?Nominate?
>| and get started recognizing your favorite OSS Projects. You can ?Search? for
>| projects too ? Sourceforge has developed a clever widget that returns results
>| across forges. In the case below, I searched for ?XNA? and received multiple
>| Codeplex results.
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> http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/06/05/microsoft-amp-sourceforge.aspx
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> Great. Windows/Microsoft-only projects in Sourceforge... that's where it
> starts.
That isn't new. I was looking through a lot of their stuff a few years
ago and found lots of stuff that was Windwoes. I thought it was odd at
the time.
I used to play with and test software a lot. I always hated sourceforge
for their redirectors. I'd click a link off of freshmeat that would
take me to a list on sourceforge, which would take me to another list
on sourceforge, which would redirect me to the download page where it
would fail to download about 60% of the time, and it would take me to
another page to tell me it failed. I'd either have to back up from the
failure page to select another download site that stood a 60% chance of
failure, too, or I'd select one on the failure page, making the
resulting path back to where I started even longer. Then I'd back up 3
or more pages to get back where I was before that crap started.
It reached the point where I only went to sourceforge if it was
accidental, or if I knew I /really/ wanted that software. Fortunately,
they finally seem to have fixed a lot of that because I don't see that
mess any more. Sometimes I still see the list before the download page.
But a lot of the time I see just the download page. And it usually
works the first try.
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Microsoft: The company that made viewing pictures dangerous.
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