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I had a bad taste in my mouth too. It's kind of crazy that we as developers have a tarnished view of open source code due to where the repository is hosted. If GitHub/Bitbucket start bundling malware into binaries one day will we tarnish all of the developers/companies open sourcing there too? I don't for a second anticipate it happening, but I'm sourceforge was considered great back in its hayday.

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> If GitHub/Bitbucket start bundling malware into binaries one day will we tarnish all of the developers/companies open sourcing there too?

Yes. And hopefully that would be an impetus to move were that to happen. Any repo at one location that was at SF the day prior, and I knew they moves, immediately looks better in my eyes, because they are no longer helping support that system.

Indeed. Here's what I get when I try to go to the SF page for xca: https://i.imgur.com/sOnboSV.png

https://github.com/Gerberus/xca

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