installers

Lots of google searching for what's wrong with Sourceforge revealed nothing (other than complaints about their packaged installers/crapware).

Financial innovation to allow consumers and installers to pay for panels over time (PPA, leases, loans, etc.).

Those have a great ROI, but are not very common, and it's hard to find installers.

You mean like WinRAR installers inside a.rar file?

This is transparent to the installers themselves as Windows directs the installation appropriately based on bitness.

As a result, they end up serving malicious ads that link to dodgy installers or even straight up 0-day browser exploits.

Look at bundled installers to see what I mean.

Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8!

However, if a project hosting site begins and continues to wrap project-provided installers with the site's own mal/spyware-delivering installer, whatever good will that site built up over the years is very rapidly burned away.

Turns out the DSL installers they were sending out were subcontractors.

There's a standard for Windows installers, why did they ignore it?

Too busy rebundling all the application installers to post updates.

Installers/Mac_OS_X/ Installers/Mac_OS_X/TenFourFox TenFourFox is a build for Tiger and PowerPC.

I was overcome with rage: I download all updates by hand then neatly archive them on a server: Installers/Windows/ Installers/Windows/Security_Updates Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/Win2k Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/WinXP Installers/Windows/Service_Packs...