On 13 May 2016, at 21:42, Josh berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 05/13/2016 01:04 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> On 05/13/2016 12:03 PM, Josh berkus wrote: >>> On 05/13/2016 11:48 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake >>>> <j...@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> >>> Anyway, all of this is a moot point, because nobody has the power to >>> tell the various companies what to do. We're just lucky that everyone >>> is still committed to writing stuff which adds to PostgreSQL. >> >> Lucky? No. We earned it. We earned it through years and years of hard >> work. Should we be thankful? Absolutely. Should we be grateful that we >> have such a powerful and engaged commercial contribution base? 100%. > > Lucky. Sure there was work and personal integrity involved, but like > any success story, there was luck. > > But we've also been fortunate in not spawning hostile-but-popular forks > by people who left the project, and that none of the companies who > created hostile forks were very successful with them, and that nobody > has seriously tried using lawyers to control/ruin the project. > > And, most importantly, we've been lucky that a lot of competing projects > have self-immolated instead of being successful and brain-draining our > contributors (MySQL, ANTS, MonetDB, etc.)
Oracle buying MySQL (via Sun) seems to have helped things along pretty well too. :) + Justin -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers