Monday, July 02, 2007
Bogus libtiff site
It's been pointed out on the TIFF mailing list that libtiff . org contains a long-outdated version of the libtiff library and is in untrustworthy hands. The location of the real libtiff library is at remotesensing.org. Frank Warmerdam writes:
Due to a slip up on our part the dns entry libtiff.org fell into the hands of DNS pirates and was sold to the current owner for several thousand euros to harvest it's positive google karma for a link farm.
It is out of our control. Really. Honestly. And I'd rather not angst over it any more.
About all that's to be done about it is to avoid linking to it, and to occasionally remind people that it's not a suitable place for getting libtiff code. Since it comes up first when you search in Google or Clusty for "libtiff", it is important to remember this.
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# posted by Gary McGath @ 9:06 AM 
