Joost Kremers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > actually, there are two non-sequiturs in your reasoning here. there > are businesses making money with free and/or open source software, > so there is no a priori reason to assume oracle wouldn't be in > business if all software were free. > > and even if that did happen, it still does not follow that no-one > would be able to use a database as good as oracle's: there is no a > priori reason to assume that in a world where all software is free, > there couldn't be a high-quality database.
Agree, thanks for putting it so clearly! Who knows what would happen if Oracle did not exist, maybe some of their developers, with a knack for doing database applications, would work on free software... /Mathias _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
