Matthew Terenzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring > him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up > camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a > while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a > domain name or person.
Yeah, I was thinking that myself: even if a hostile group managed to obtain control of the trademark and/or domain name, they could not kill the project. We'd just regroup under a new name --- it'd slow us down for a bit, sure, but no more. The project name has changed once already, remember. The only serious threat I see on the horizon is patent issues. Again, I don't think that could kill us over the long term --- we could surely write our way out of any noncritical patents (see recent ARC fiasco for a fire drill of this nature), and we ourselves are prior art with which to defeat any patents on critical algorithms. A patent lawsuit could certainly hurt us, if only by soaking up the time and attention of key developers, but I don't think it could kill the project. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match