Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD
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Msg-id 2661.1157208664@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>>> ...  It's much easier to donate your code to the project
>>>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your
>>>> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own.
>>>
>>> Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples.
>>
>> And?  Seen either of them around lately?

> I deny the assertion that "not sharing code" is the reason they
> aren't in the market anymore.

You have as much proof of that as I have of the opposite, namely none
whatsoever.  But certainly you can't put them forward today as examples
of long-term success of a private fork.

            regards, tom lane

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