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by loganabbott 2920 days ago
FYI the SourceForge version of FileZilla is clean, and has been since 2016. The official FileZilla installer has been doing this for some time now though. In case people don’t know, a lot has changed at SourceForge since my company acquired them in 2016. All projects are scanned for malware. We covered the improvements again here https://sourceforge.net/blog/brief-history-sourceforge-look-...
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The fact that a clean installer exists is not really the point, nor should you take it as an opportunity to plug your company.
Yet this happened with your company at the helm:

https://medium.com/@jonykatz/sourceforge-hiding-fact-that-th...

This blog post is not accurate at all.
So what's your side of the story, then?
We lost a few hours of commits and notified everyone affected. That's it.
And the disappearing tickets?
Regardless of that we can no longer trust the developers of FileZilla.

If they need money, they should ask for donations instead. Patreon was suggested elsewhere in this thread.