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Plenty of enterprise software products have "Download" pages, but they're usually for evaluation versions. I tried clicking two different download links on the
by joshwa 15y 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:
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Both of which take you to this form:
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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:
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Which says I can only download "related Puppet components".
Which takes me to yet another form:
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With a no-registration-required link buried at the bottom.
Which takes me to the aforementioned "Download" page:
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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.