Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON
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Msg-id 200401062218.i06MIxp18156@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >
> >Help me out here... what's your perceived difference between kazaa and
> >bittorrent?
> >
> >
> >
> I won't speak for someone else but I would guess that it is that
> Bittorrent isn't a business, it is a technology.
> Where Kazaa is a business.
>
> Personally I have zero problem with Kazaa and I think Open Office should
> use every legal means possible to
> distribute their software.
>
> If I buy a gun , and kill you... is that my fault or the fault of the
> gun maker?

But with Kazaa and the spyware, you could say the gun is faulty and why
would you want to be associated with a faulty gun.

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