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http://www.puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/ http://www.puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/ What the hell are you talking about, that was linked right of

http://www.puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/ http://www.puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options/ What the hell are you talking about, that was linked right off their homepage as "Download". Can't really be any less hidden than that.

dangrossman 16y ago
Is it? "Download" links here: http://info.puppetlabs.com/download http://info.puppetlabs.com/download Then I have to click a link at the bottom to here: http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download Then I have to scroll to the bottom to skip registration and get to the page you linked.
- burgerbrain 16y ago
  I only see the register page when I go there, which doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
joshwa 16y ago
Plenty of enterprise software products have "Download" pages, but they're usually for evaluation versions. I tried clicking two different download links on the home page: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.j... Both of which take you to this form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.j... which has no reference to the open source edition. The next place I check is "Community" since that's often where "Community Editions" live. No reference on any of those pages to the development of the core product, only add-ons. If I click yet a third download link, in the secondary navigation, I get a nearly-identical form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.j... Which says I can only download "related Puppet components". Which takes me to yet another form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.j... With a no-registration-required link buried at the bottom. Which takes me to the aforementioned "Download" page: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.j... which has no reference to the fact that it's the open-source version I'm downloading. If I scroll ALL the way down to the bottom, I see a link to the source on Github. There is only one mention of the word GPL on the main Puppet site, and that's in a blog post from a few days ago announcing the license switch. I stand my my assertion that the OSS product is very well hidden.

dangrossman 16y ago

Is it? "Download" links here: http://info.puppetlabs.com/download http://info.puppetlabs.com/download Then I have to click a link at the bottom to here: http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download Then I have to scroll to the bottom to skip registration and get to the page you linked.

burgerbrain 16y ago
I only see the register page when I go there, which doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

joshwa 16y ago

Plenty of enterprise software products have "Download" pages, but they're usually for evaluation versions. I tried clicking two different download links on the home page: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.j... Both of which take you to this form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.j... which has no reference to the open source edition. The next place I check is "Community" since that's often where "Community Editions" live. No reference on any of those pages to the development of the core product, only add-ons. If I click yet a third download link, in the secondary navigation, I get a nearly-identical form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.j... Which says I can only download "related Puppet components". Which takes me to yet another form: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.j... With a no-registration-required link buried at the bottom. Which takes me to the aforementioned "Download" page: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.j... which has no reference to the fact that it's the open-source version I'm downloading. If I scroll ALL the way down to the bottom, I see a link to the source on Github. There is only one mention of the word GPL on the main Puppet site, and that's in a blog post from a few days ago announcing the license switch. I stand my my assertion that the OSS product is very well hidden.