5/25/2023 0 Comments Imgburn alternative![]() ![]() Imgburn exist a long time and was no troubles If ImgBurn wasn't closed source, the minute its developers started to ad malware/adware to its installer, someone on GitHub or wherever would have recompiled their own version without all this crap, and we wouldn't be in this situation because we could point to these GitHub releases as the new "official" version.Īnd that is also the reason why you're never going to see something like that happen to Rufus, because you can rest assured that, if we started to produce a version that contains unwanted stuff like that and put it on our website, someone would be able to fork Rufus and produce their own version without it and it really wouldn't take long for users to figure out what version they should download. CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT EXIST, PERIOD! Oh, and this folks is exactly the reason why CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE needs to be eradicated, even if it's "free/gratis" software like ImgBurn. ![]() Eventually, I may just remove explicit links to CD burning software and let users sort that themselves, since you can't even guarantee that an application that used to be fine will continue to be that way. I think I'll take some time to evaluate what application I'd like to replace ImgBurn with, because I'm not happy about burnaware users having to jump through hoops in order not to get adware. If you refresh the web page, you should see that it points to clean versions of the ImgBurn installer. Updating the Rufus website to mention other software requires a bit more work than it seems, because it requires editing about 40 translations (yeah, it's mostly search and replace but still), so for now I've just updated the link to point to a page that has older clean versions of the software ( ), as that's a much simpler update. You just don't go around and change an existing installer like that. The people who own the site silently updated the installer and added 1 MB of whatever crap to it: ![]()
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