The opendarwin .com debacle

[Jeremy Huddleston]

For clarification, I believe you're talking about http://www.darwinports.com 
  , not opendarwin.com ...

On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:57, Scott Haneda wrote:

> I've grown to truly appreciate the MacPorts project. I'm not as  
> involved as I'd like to be, but my list of submitted ports is growing.
>
> I honestly have no idea how a few of you put so much dedicated time  
> into this project. Thanks is not ever going to be enough.
>
> Two times now I've had someone tell me Fink was a better experience  
> than Mac Ports to learn they had been to the .com site.
>
> Whether Fink is good or not is not the point I really care about,  
> both Fink and MacPorts are viable projects.
>
> If two users were misinformed by the .com site, how many more are,  
> have been, or will be?
>
> It appears the owner has turned to the dark side. Without getting  
> into too much of a cat and mouse game, what about some very basic  
> counter measures?
>
> He must be syncing the port tree from some machine on a schedule,  
> why not block that machine?
>
> There are plenty of links on the .com that point to official  
> MacPorts pages. Can we do a basic referrer check for those requests,  
> and send them to a page that shorty explains the situation, quickly  
> gives them links to get to official, and provides a detail link to  
> the more verbose explanation?
>
> Isn't the site is violation of some aspect of some license of some  
> form? If that is the case, make him release his source, or stop, or  
> whatever we can find to make this go away.
>
> Not that a lot of people use my DNS, but I'm tempted to add a zone  
> for his .com to point to nowhere. It's technicaly a phishing or  
> malware site, perhaps a mass effort to report the domain to the in  
> built browser phishing and malware lists is in order?
>
> Has anyone gone to the upstream ISP and explained this case? How  
> many donations has he pilfered away from the team?
>
> Maybe this is really low on the problem scale these days, if so,  
> ignore it I guess, but if I've personally hit two people who were  
> confused, this must be more widespread.
>
> Anything I can do to help; I may not be able to patch as many ports  
> as the next guy, but I can do gruntwork like this :)
> -- 
> Scott
> Iphone says hello.
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