Re: PostgreSQL derivatives - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL derivatives
Date
Msg-id 1213371681.11470.271.camel@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL derivatives  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:

> Ah, yes, this is certainly something we always want to avoid --- having
> one company be so closely associated with Postgres that people think the
> company owns it and therefore controls it.
>
> Is that a problem now?  What things can the community or companies do to
> avoid that?  We could scale back contributions, but I am afraid that
> will hurt more than help.

I don't see it as a problem in any way at this point, it used to be... 7
years ago. Now there are just too many companies and contributors
involved.

Joshua D. Drake



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