Update (8:40pm CT): Shortly after this story was published, SourceForge’s community team announced a change via blog post: “In an effort to address a number of concerns we have been hearing from the ...

The download-hosting site retreated after public outcry, removing the junkware it inserted into downloads of the popular GIMP image editing tool without the developers’ permission. But SourceForge has ...

The venerable project hosting service SourceForge may have finally crossed the line into irrelevance following an abuse of trust related to the GIMP project. Once the darling of open source, ...

Downhill Slide SourceForge’s reputation as the primary code repository for FOSS projects began to tarnish in recent years. Projects left the repository for other outlets. “At this point, the new ...