Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source
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Msg-id 16380.1166586871@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/19/06, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> if the company dies, the community keeps going (as it did after Great
>> Bridge, without a hickup), but if the community dies, the company dies
>> too.

> However, in regard to a dying community killing a company, I disagree
> completely.  Commercial software companies most certainly do not rely
> on outside contribution to survive.

So, I suppose you can give us ten examples of thriving companies based
on private forks of dead open-source projects?
        regards, tom lane


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