On 15 Oct 2012, at 01:26, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:23:57 AM UTC-7, Paul Belanger wrote: >> On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:10:54 AM UTC-4, windowsrefund wrote: >>> >>> Recently, there have been some changes made to the Puppetlabs website which >>> result in the free software releases being difficult to locate and download. >>> >>> Visitors using the download links are taken directly to the non-free >>> "Enterprise" option rather than being presented with an option. >>> >>> Personally, I'd like to see the site reverted so users have the option. >>> >>> FYI, the wiki section still provides this useful content here: >>> >>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/downloading_puppet >>> >>> Best, >>> Adam Kosmin >> >> I was asking this on IRC the other day. I understand the need to collect >> information for prospective customers, however requiring a pay wall >> (personal information) to access the open source tarballs does not seem to >> be in the spirit of free software[1]. > > There are lots of ways people get open source Puppet, and not many people > actually grab them in tarball form from the website from the stats we have. > > Apart from being in the distributions, most of you seem to be getting > software from the apt/yum repos, which don't require a paywall: > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html > > If you're hitting the main page, yes, the "Download" link goes to PE by > default, with a link to the OSS download page at the bottom. The survey/user info page you get for the open source version used to have a bypass and go str8 to the downloads link, doesn't have it anymore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
