Re: Running PostGre on DVD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Running PostGre on DVD
Date
Msg-id 20051115151520.GJ7519@svana.org
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In response to Re: Running PostGre on DVD  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>)
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:01:24PM +0100, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> > The example given in this thread certainly isn't going to change
> > anybody's mind.  "Hi, I propose reducing everybody's security because
> > my local admins insist on an utterly brain-dead security policy."
>
> Tom, nobody wants to reduce everybody's security, and nobody is proposing
> changes leading to such. I just believe more than me agree that having this
> as an option on Windows wouldn't hurt anybody, but would rather make life
> simpler for some Windows people. Anyway, I don't use Windows on a regular
> basis, so it's not that important to me...

So get the source code and change it and put it on a website for others
to use. What's missing is an argument that it should be supported by
the default installation...

This is free software, if you don't like something, change it. You just
can't require other people to go along with it.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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