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Has SourceForge been judged unfairly?

While it’s generally better not to judge too quickly, I think it’s reasonable that people are holding SourceForge to account for some of their decisions. People who download open source software do not expect to get other applications bundled with them. And the deceptive download ads from Google Adsense (which – as I pointed out earlier – can easily be blocked in the Adsense ad review center) certainly didn’t help matters.

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