Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL gets $19.5 MM - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL gets $19.5 MM
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Msg-id 20030620211004.H51411@hub.org
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL gets $19.5 MM  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Michael Meskes wrote:

> There are some, but I still disagree. The biggest advantage of
> PostgreSQL in my opinion has always been that it's a community project
> and not driven by some commercial interests. I also do not agree that
> IBM is so important for Linux. IBM helps yes, but there's also a huge
> risk. Paying people unselfishly to do community work is a very difficult
> business model.

In fact ... from what I've been reading, IBM is pretty much what put Linux
onto SCO's radar ... until there were 'big backers', according to one
article I read, who was SCO going to sue?  Linus?


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