While Novellers are trying to marry Microsoft's proprietary software stack with Free software developers, SourceForge, whose awards were sponsored by Microsoft, has just made a Windows-only program its "project of the month". It's safe to predict that more such things are on their way as Microsoft tightens its grip on its #1 competitor.
This month’s Project of the Month (POTM) is a very cool program called WinSCP. It’s lead developer explains what the project is all about:
“WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol. It was the first ever GUI SCP (and later SFTP) client for Windows.”
Comments
Technie
2008-09-05 16:15:47
akf
2008-09-05 18:23:19
Savannah Gna!
landofbind
2008-09-07 01:27:39
You've several times promoted in this blog proprietary software, products and services. You've also promoted windows-only software and mac-only software.
And promoted hardware from companies who couldn't care less about software freedom (or freedom in general) and users rights.
So, Sourceforge promotes some windows only software. So what? It's still open source. It's doing its job. Doesn't discriminate.
How about yourself? Have you being something useful? Besides trowing things to the wall to see if they stick, by the ton.
No, I don't think you have.
Someone might called you an hypocrite. What do you think? What do you call someone that speaks for something and forces others to follow but is unable to follow it himself?
Conscience you don't have, that's for sure...
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landofbind
2008-09-07 01:30:40
Google, the "we do no evil", hypocrites.
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-09-07 02:04:44
Lars Hartviksen
2008-09-14 14:05:28
I mean, I am Micro$oftophobic too but I'd appreciate it if the really heavyweight critique, ranging from trying to bribe Netscape and making exploder practically undeletable on purpose, to making competition to office 2007 seem trashy in the eyes of the mundane using their docx format.
This critique of sourceforge is completely subjective.
I think that sourceforge, by making window$-only-software winning a competition, shows that open-source does not discriminate between platforms when making these decisions, and confirms once again that they are in fact supporting OPEN software, that everyone use, and not necessarily Linux-only zealots.
tom
2008-09-20 15:34:27
and look at the section for windows users - they do not say "web browser", but "internet explorer".