There once was a site called Sourceforge
Where open source kiddies would go
They’d download free proggies
And upload their projects
For that, they had plenty to show
During the nineties and early 2000s, when we needed to find an application to install from source, Sourceforge was the place to go. It held a veritable smorgasbord of software—most of it open source and a lot of it really useful. You could download an app, install it, and not incur a single issue.
It was cool, and I always recommended it to people when they needed to find software.
My how the mighty have fallen… and fallen hard.
Now? Sourceforge should be called Scourgeforge, because that’s what they are—a scourge upon developers and end users. Instead of getting those wonderful apps that you once could trust, you get apps infused with opt-out installers that add toolbars and other pieces of malware onto your system. Those added installers… proprietary. So, even the open-source projects are now littered with closed-source bits and pieces.