Camm Maguire writes:
> As would mine. The major cost associated with any software project is
> the migration/learning curve time. Effective guarantees that this
> time investment will have a long payoff period (i.e. there will be no
> forced upgrades, mandatory incompatibilities, binary/linked
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:
> By the way, I hope I'm not coming across as saying "thanks for all
> your hard work, now go eat peanuts." I have great appreciation for
> what PostgreSQL has become, and for the developers who have made it
> so. That is why I keep at this tired argument
Philip Warner wrote:
>
> At 10:19 6/07/00 -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> >
> >This has happened in PostgreSQL's own history. How long did it take for
> >the project to get picked up again? How long did it take for the people
> >who picked it up to familiarize themselves with the code? How long d
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:
> This has happened in PostgreSQL's own history. How long did it take
> for the project to get picked up again? How long did it take for the
> people who picked it up to familiarize themselves with the code? How
> long did it take before the community at
At 10:19 6/07/00 -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
>
>This has happened in PostgreSQL's own history. How long did it take for
>the project to get picked up again? How long did it take for the people
>who picked it up to familiarize themselves with the code? How long did
>it take before the community a
Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
> > I would submit that most businesses don't know the difference. Perhaps
> > they need some education.
>
> Are you volunteering?
Of course. As the systems administrator for my company, I feel it's my
responsibility to inform the principals who run this company about
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Ron Peterson wrote:
> your software to make any concessions?". Of course you do. The
> question is just what concessions do you require before granting use of
> your product. Any statement to the effect that BSD is "really free" is
> just navel gazing mumbo jumbo.
Good points - alot of. J
* The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000705 12:03] wrote:
>
> just to curtail this while thread to a certain point ... switching the
> license to GPL is *not* on the table, nor has it every been, nor will it
> ever be ...
Good to hear, I was getting worried for a bit that the code might
bec
just to curtail this while thread to a certain point ... switching the
license to GPL is *not* on the table, nor has it every been, nor will it
ever be ...
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ron Peterson wrote:
> Ned,
>
> Thanks for inviting the community to participate in this discussion. I
> wonder, thou
One thing to keep in mind: for a very long time, PostgreSQL was the *only* free ("free
as in free speech, not free as in free beer") DBMS. I told dozens of people to
consider PostgreSQL instead of, say, MySQL, for that very reason. Whichever free
software licence you preferred, there was no re
Greetings all,
I'm sending this to -announce, -hackers, and -general; apologies for
the cross-post. Replies should automatically go to -general, which
is the best forum for this discussion. But I wanted to make sure
the largest possible audience of PostgreSQL users had a chance to
comment...
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