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Subject: Re: Add AIX on the PostgreSQL Download page
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 22:46:20 +0200
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> On 7 Sep 2021, at 22:08, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:07 PM Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> =
wrote:
>>> On Sep 7, 2021, at 12:35, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> =
wrote:

>>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.

I don=E2=80=99t think there is a huge risk in any company making the =
investment into
packaging and/or writing and maintaining an up-to-date installer purely =
for
traffic, that would be very expensive traffic.  If they do make a =
high-quality
installer that people like and anyone can use for free without =
registration (I
would expect us to have such reqs in place for linking) only to get the
traffic, then that=E2=80=99s not necessarily bad for the community is =
it?

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