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		Grue3 on May 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goodbye, Sourceforge Reviewed by whom? This and ninite are MITM software providers just like SourceForge. Even if they're safe now, you can't be sure they won't installing crapware in the future.

0xAA on May 29, 2015 [–]

Same as with Linux distro maintainers. No guarantees, but this scheme is working for now.

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