I'm agreeing with the people like SePICK and erServer.
I'm only being sort of cheeky in saying that they wouldn't have had a
product had
it not been for the Open Source that they are leveraging off of.
Making money? I don't know what they're plans are, but at some point I would
fully expect *someone* to make money.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: "Gary MacDougall" <gary@freeportweb.com>
Cc: "mlw" <markw@mohawksoft.com>; "Hannu Krosing" <hannu@tm.ee>; "Thomas
Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>; "Don Baccus"
<dhogaza@pacifier.com>; "PostgreSQL Development"
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Gary MacDougall wrote:
>
> > > If you write a program which stands on its own, takes no work from
> > > uncompensated parties, then you have the unambiguous right to do what
> > > ever you want.
> >
> > Thats a given.
>
> okay, then now I'm confused ... neither SePICK or erServer are derived
> from uncompensated parties ... they work over top of PgSQL, but are not
> integrated into them, nor have required any changes to PgSQL in order to
> make it work ...
>
> ... so, where is this whole outcry coming from?
>
>
