{"id":21070,"date":"2015-06-23T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21070"},"modified":"2015-06-23T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T12:38:28","slug":"why-big-open-source-projects-are-fleeing-sourceforges-free-software-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/23\/why-big-open-source-projects-are-fleeing-sourceforges-free-software-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Why big open-source projects are fleeing SourceForge&#8217;s free software hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PC World<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2938017\/why-big-open-source-projects-are-fleeing-sourceforges-free-software-hub.html?google_editors_picks=true\" target=\"_blank\">Why big open-source projects are fleeing SourceForge&#8217;s free software hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSourceForge&#8217;s distasteful junkware-pushing antics have soured open-source projects on the one-time free software titan.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Distasteful is putting it mildly.  I am glad I saw this article.  I thought SourceForge was a brand that could be trusted.  I am glad I found out about this.  I have managed to pick up some junkware that I just noticed and eliminated. It&#8217;s hard to know where I got it.  It&#8217;s been on my computer for quite a while.  If you see<kbd> stij.exe <\/kbd>running on your computer, it is easy to get rid of without buying software removal tools that you don&#8217;t know if you can trust.  The trick is to boot your computer in safe mode so that<kbd> stij.exe <\/kbd>is not running when you try to delete it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World has the article Why big open-source projects are fleeing SourceForge&#8217;s free software hub. SourceForge&#8217;s distasteful junkware-pushing antics have soured open-source projects on the one-time free software titan. Distasteful is putting it mildly. I am glad I saw this article. I thought SourceForge was a brand that could be trusted. I am glad I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21071,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21070\/revisions\/21071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}