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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:49, you wrote:
> But here's a wrinkle. What's our domain? If CLUE is conceived as a
> professional, end-to-end, Linux umbrella organization, how does it
> relate to proprietary licences such as SCO, Solaris, AIX etc.? If we
> limit ourselves to Linux, we restrict our influence, our voice and
> our domain. We need to define how we relate to other licences, (BSD
> for example). There are definitely areas of overlap and common cause
> here, and we ought to be open to broader cooperation rather than
> turf wars based on licencing.
this is an easy one, so i'll attempt to answer it and leave all the other
harder questions conveniently undisturbed ;-)
the "L" in CLUE stands for Linux. therefore, a really easy test for
appropriateness is: does it run on Linux? secondary may be whether or not it
is Free / Open Source software. tertiary may be whether it has a Canadian
connection. let's look at database servers, for example.
Microsoft SQL Server does not run on Linux. so it's probably right out.
Oracle and DB2 run on Linux. therefore i'd assume they are of interest. they
are both closed, however, and therefore remain outsiders from the perspective
of community. it still remains that they are a valued and interesting piece
of technology within the realm of Linux.
MySQL runs on Linux and is Free software (it didn't always used to be, but
history is history). therefore one could assume that it is of even greater
kin to Linux than Oracle is, though Oracle may be more interesting in certain
zones of scalability.
PostgreSQL[1] runs on Linux, and is Free software. interestingly, there is an
important Canadian representation in the core group of PostgreSQL (Marc in
Toronto). perhaps PostgreSQL might be of even great interest to CLUE than
MySQL/SAP/Informix because of this
so i'd say leave the licensing holy wars, the UNIX me-tos and everything
non-Linux alone[2] and keep focussed on the nouns in CLUE: Canada, Linux and
Users.
[1] i skipped over other Free software databases (e.g. SAP DB) that would
probably fit well somewhere between MySQL and PostgreSQL in this continuum
for brevity
[2] geeks will be geeks and have interest in things non-Linux. that's cool.
but CLUE itself probably shouldn't involve itself in those things.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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