elementary OS says goodbye to SourceForge

elementary OS is a well known desktop Linux distribution. Previously elementary OS had used SourceForge for its download hosting, but now the developers have politely announced that they are leaving SourceForge.

Danrabbit posted the announcement on the elementary OS blog:

Sourceforge has helped us serve millions of downloads at no charge and provided us with great analytics, but our time with them has come to a close.

The recent news of adware being bundled with Windows installers of popular open source apps was unfortunate to hear. Nobody likes it when financial incentives supersede the user experience of a product or service that is doing great things, but the reality is that we’ve been part of the problem here. We haven’t paid Sourceforge a dime for the petabytes of bandwidth that we’ve consumed over the years. We’re the teenager that rages against their parents, screaming “no fair” while freeloading. Finally, we’ve woken up and decided to put on the grown-up pants.

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