Re: PostgreSQL mission statement? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
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Msg-id 200205020031.g420V5W14247@saturn.janwieck.net
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?  (cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com)
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cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
> > mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> > > Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement?
>
> > Nope.  Given the wide variety of views among the developer community,
> > I think we'd have a tough time agreeing on a mission statement, unless
> > it was so generic as to be meaningless ...
>
> Well, I think one of the things that has been agreed on that _isn't_
> that generic is:
>   "We use a Berkeley style license, and prefer it that way."
   Does that now count as a mission? Whow, didn't know that I am   on a mission!  What in our mission is mission
critical? What   are our defined mission goals?
 


Jan :-)

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