Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?
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Msg-id 20080131174144.2fe4341c@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:04:53 +1300
"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com> wrote:
> > The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most
> > desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use
> > PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry.

> While I'm a big fan of the BSD license (for varied reasons) I think
> that OpenSource hardliners like RMS would argue that the BSD license
> is *NOT* in the true spirit of OpenSource *BECAUSE* of what you list
> as a bonus of it ... the locking down of benefits reaped from
> OpenSource not getting back into the stream.

RMS wouldn't make any such argument at all. His argument would be
centered around FREE not OpenSource software.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
> 


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