| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "REIX, Tony" <tony(dot)reix(at)atos(dot)net>, "pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Add AIX on the PostgreSQL Download page |
| Date: | 2021-09-07 20:08:40 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEy8e2FffJcrVNAcTAixU_oOyO4J3LUgs4tsTtm3cAuAgQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:07 PM Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 7, 2021, at 12:35, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> > But we also need to make sure we don't end up being a link factory for
> > companies or organisations who just want to get clicks, and do so by
> > hosting an installer.
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> It's a bit of a balancing act, because one of the ways a commercial organization can justify the (non-trivial) cost of preparing packages or an installer is that it is a good marketing tool. At the minimum, we should require that the installer be downlaodable without any registration or information collection.
Certainly, and I'm fine with that. I mean what we want to avoid is
having 5 different links for each platform going to differen companies
who're doing that as a way to drive traffic only. But yes as you say,
it's a balance.
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Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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