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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: REIX, Tony <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add AIX on the PostgreSQL Download page
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 22:08:40 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:07 PM Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Sep 7, 2021, at 12:35, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> 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
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