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Kudos to Gimp Team, this move is something I wholeheartedly support :).
The Gimp abandons SourceForge due to installer wrapper
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I found out about this a couple of days ago, when I discovered that GIMP 2.8.8 was available.
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First it was CNET, now it's SourceForge. We are running out of good sites to get safe software.
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Argh, SourceForge too! & CNET is a pain, got some invasions from there, even after being careful.
Some good sites: tucows.com & filehippo.com (strange, both using the names of some quite gentle, vegetarian 4 legged creatures lol )
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Another one with no addons: MajorGeeks.com - MajorGeeks
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The Gimp abandons SourceForge due to installer wrapper
Posted: 08 Nov 2013
SourceIn the past few months, we have received some complaints about the site where the GIMP installers for the Microsoft Windows platforms are hosted.
SourceForge, once a useful and trustworthy place to develop and host FLOSS applications, has faced a problem with the ads they allow on their sites - the green "Download here" buttons that appear on many, many adds leading to all kinds of unwanted utilities have been spotted there as well.
The tipping point was the introduction of their own SourceForge Installer software, which bundles third-party offers with Free Software packages. We do not want to support this kind of behavior, and have thus decided to abandon SourceForge.
From now on, Jernej Simončič, who provides the installer packages, uploads them to our FTP directly, and from there they will be distributed automatically to our mirrors. Please check Downloads page for updated information. GIMP - Windows installers will remain active for the time being and direct users to the new download locations.
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