


Here are some other important things to understand: Most organizations using Chocolatey do NOT use the community repository, and Chocolatey Software DOES NOT RECOMMEND using the community repository either for organizational deployments for a variety of reasons. Community package repository is the same thing as packages, and represents less than 5% of the existing packages in existence (nearly all are internal). Use of the community package repository is optional. No need for discussion, there are many reasons we don't need to get into, mostly it protects our ability to ensure all infrastructure costs can be paid for. Commercial code is not open source - and it won't be open sourced.No 3rd party advertising - We do feel that our commercial options make sense for anyone that can afford them, so you will see we lean folks to that.No Data Collection / Telemetry - No call home, not even in our commercial options (license tracking is honor-based) and there are organizations (or internal processes) that verify/validate (and karma) that will adjust any abuses of licensing.

