Re: Does enterprisedb.com down?

Thanks All, this thread moved now to another mailing list for discussing
this problem with EnterpriseDB folks (Bruce Momjian and others).

2010/6/15 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:21, M. Bashir Al-Noimi <admin(at)mbnoimi(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > On 15/06/2010 06:00 ص, John Gage wrote:
> >
> > I ran the IP on http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check and it is
> not
> > blacklisted.
> >
> > Actually I suspect that pg takes same policy of sf.net where sf.netforbids
> > open source projects to specific countries as mentioned in the following
> > links (for that I migrated my projects from sf.net to Launchpad because
> > sf.net works against FOSS):
> >
> http://arabcrunch.com/2010/01/following-clintons-internet-freedom-speech-us-based-sourceforge-blocked-syria-sudan-iran-korea-cuba-is-open-source-still-really-open.html
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/some-good-news-sourceforge-removes-blanket-blocking/
> >
> > So I wish to get a clarification about this issue, does pg forbids my
> > country? is it still open source?
>
> PostgreSQL does *not* forbid your country. As you showed further down
> this thread, you can reach the main website and mirror systems, so
> that's not where the problem is. But you wanted a statement on it.
>
> This is, however, the second report in just a couple of days of people
> not being able to reach the windows downloads that are hosted by
> EnterpriseDB (I assume you are looking for the Windows downloads - if
> you're actually looking for EnterpriseDB's commercial product, you
> need to talk to them and not us). This indicates a real problem.
>
> Can someone from EnterpriseDB (hi, Dave!) verify with their provider
> that they do *not* intentionally or unintentionally prevent people
> from downloading the software based on their location?
>
> Unfortunately, there are no backup download locations available for
> the windows installers, but you can always download the source off the
> postgresql.org mirrors and build your own binaries.
>
>
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