Re: PostgreSQL mission statement? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0205021443050.5658-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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On 2 May 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> The Politically Correct mission statement follows:
> 
> The PostgreSQL community is committed to creating and maintaining a good 
> but not the best, mostly reliable, open-source multi-purpose standards 
> based database, and with it, promote free and open source software and 
> other worthy causes world wide and to not hurting anyones feelings in doing so. 
> We are also committed to not cheating our SOs, not charging too much for
> our services nor eating too much and to recommending products of our
> commercial competitors before ours in order to help them fullfil their
> obligations to their stockholders. 

As a practicing polyamorist, I find the part about not cheating on our SOs 
highly offensive.  :-)



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