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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by JS...@aol.com on 2014/04/12 10:49:34 UTC
Who is "SourceForge"??
I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
SourceForge, which I have never seen before. I started to download it, but
something about it looked suspicious, so I did not finish installing it.
Could you please help - I don't want to install this on my computer, IF it
is a dangerous file.
Jan Scott
Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by Dave Fisher <wa...@apache.org>.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 12, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Harrie Westphal <ha...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
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>> On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:49 AM, JScott4607@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
>> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. I started to download it, but
>> something about it looked suspicious, so I did not finish installing it.
Source code is maintained at the Apache Software Foundation by the Apache OpenOffice project. See http://OpenOffice.Apache.org/.
SourceForge has served over 100,000,000 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice as a gracious service to the community.
SourceForge also hosts the extensions and templates sites.
Wikis, the forums and OpenOffice.org are hosted at the ASF on Apache infrastructure.
Regards,
Dave
>>
>> Could you please help - I don't want to install this on my computer, IF it
>> is a dangerous file.
>> Jan Scott
>
> SourceForge is nothing to worry about. Here is the lead in paragraph from Wikipedia defining SourceForge found by Googling Sourceforge. Open Office is an open source project and SourceForge is where the source code is maintained.
>
> SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open source software development. It was the first to offer this service for free to open source projects.
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Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by Harrie Westphal <ha...@frontiernet.net>.
On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:49 AM, JScott4607@aol.com wrote:
> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. I started to download it, but
> something about it looked suspicious, so I did not finish installing it.
>
> Could you please help - I don't want to install this on my computer, IF it
> is a dangerous file.
> Jan Scott
SourceForge is nothing to worry about. Here is the lead in paragraph from Wikipedia defining SourceForge found by Googling Sourceforge. Open Office is an open source project and SourceForge is where the source code is maintained.
SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open source software development. It was the first to offer this service for free to open source projects.
=== An Apple addict in Tennessee ===
Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by DaveMainwaring <da...@gmail.com>.
*SourceForge* is a web-based source code
repository<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_repository>.
It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and
manage free and open
source<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source>software
development. It was the first to offer this service for free to
open source projects.[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#cite_note-earthweb2007-2>
[*discuss
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:SourceForge#notability_claim_versus_source>*
] The website runs a version of SourceForge Enterprise
Edition<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge_Enterprise_Edition>,
forked <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29> from
the last open-source version available. As of March 2014, the SourceForge
repository hosts more than 430,000 projects and has more than 3.7 million
registered users,[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#cite_note-what-is-sourceforge-3>although
not all are active. The domain *sourceforge.net
<http://sourceforge.net>* attracted at least 33 million visitors by August
2009 according to a Compete.com
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compete.com>survey.
[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#cite_note-compete1-4>
SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers of
free<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>/ open
source software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software>,
competing with other providers such as
GitHub<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub>,
RubyForge <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyForge>,
Tigris.org<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris.org>,
BountySource <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BountySource>,
Launchpad<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchpad_%28website%29>,
BerliOS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerliOS>,
JavaForge<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaForge>,
GNU Savannah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah>, and
Gitorious<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious>
.
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:49 AM, <JS...@aol.com> wrote:
> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. I started to download it, but
> something about it looked suspicious, so I did not finish installing it.
>
> Could you please help - I don't want to install this on my computer, IF it
> is a dangerous file.
> Jan Scott
Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by Martin Groenescheij <ma...@groenescheij.com>.
Sent from my mobile device.
> On 12 Apr 2014, at 9:47 pm, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> James Knott wrote:
>> JScott4607 wrote:
>>> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
>>> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. ...
>> Sourceforge is a well known site for downloading open source software.
>> There's nothing wrong with downloading something from there.
>
> A further clarification for the original poster: the official OpenOffice downloads are indeed served through the SourceForge infrastructure. So it's normal that the official download page http://www.openoffice.org/download/ redirects you to SourceForge.
>
Probably a god idea to mention the redirection on the download page.
> Regards,
> Andrea.
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Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
James Knott wrote:
> JScott4607 wrote:
>> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
>> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. ...
> Sourceforge is a well known site for downloading open source software.
> There's nothing wrong with downloading something from there.
A further clarification for the original poster: the official OpenOffice
downloads are indeed served through the SourceForge infrastructure. So
it's normal that the official download page
http://www.openoffice.org/download/ redirects you to SourceForge.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: Who is "SourceForge"??
Posted by James Knott <ja...@rogers.com>.
JScott4607@aol.com wrote:
> I want to download your "OpenOffice.org", but I noticed the name
> SourceForge, which I have never seen before. I started to download it, but
> something about it looked suspicious, so I did not finish installing it.
>
> Could you please help - I don't want to install this on my computer, IF it
> is a dangerous file.
> Jan Scott
Sourceforge is a well known site for downloading open source software.
There's nothing wrong with downloading something from there. What was
suspicious?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge
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