On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:07 PM Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 7, 2021, at 12:35, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.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
ofpreparing packages or an installer is that it is a good marketing tool. At the minimum, we should require that the
installerbe 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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