Is SourceForge hijacking project accounts?

SourceForge has gotten heat in the past for its advertising practices, but now the site is drawing criticism for possibly hijacking project accounts. A recent thread in the Linux subreddit had some users pointing fingers at SourceForge.

Patdavid started the thread by talking about an abandoned account for The GIMP that SourceForge has apparently taken over:

It appears that SourceForge has taken it upon themselves to take over the project account for GIMP-WIN that was previously handled by our windows maintainer, Jernej Simončič, without our permission.

The account that took over the project is listed on SF as sf-editor1[1] , and apparently has quite a few different FL/OSS projects associated with it (just a little suspicious).

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