Thread: no comment
I'll take advantage of the fact the Pg is "open source" and that Bruce comments on the story, so as not to be flamed aboutthis: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6352301.html?tag=prntfr Q: What are 1M lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A: A good start cheers, thalis ps any lawyers in the list?...didn't think so
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:17PM -0400, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > I'll take advantage of the fact the Pg is "open source" and that Bruce comments on the story, so as not to be flamed aboutthis: > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6352301.html?tag=prntfr short term and off-the-cuff, my first reaction is 'those dirty bastards'... but then i begin to realize that they're cutting their own throat. in the end, quality will prevail. -- I'd concentrate on "living in the now" because it is fun and on building a better world because it is possible. - Tod Steward will@serensoft.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
They [Microsoft] have plans to release the .NET CLI on FreeBSD at the end of the year (tenatively). They are doing this on FreeBSD because they have experience with it (Hotmail) and it uses the BSD license instead of the GPL. They do not approve of the GPL, but they are alright with the BSD license. Since PostgreSQL can be built without readline, there should not be a problem [with PostgreSQL] as seen by Microsoft. Microsoft is not alone in hating the GPL. There are many a BSD developer out there that thing the GPL is evil. I am not one of them, but I do see why they don't like it. Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "will trillich" <will@serensoft.com> To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] no comment > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:17PM -0400, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > > I'll take advantage of the fact the Pg is "open source" and that Bruce comments on the story, so as not to be flamed about this: > > > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6352301.html?tag=prntfr > > short term and off-the-cuff, my first reaction is 'those dirty > bastards'... but then i begin to realize that they're cutting > their own throat. in the end, quality will prevail. > > -- > I'd concentrate on "living in the now" because it is fun > and on building a better world because it is possible. > - Tod Steward > > will@serensoft.com > http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! > http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us! > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >
will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:17PM -0400, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > > I'll take advantage of the fact the Pg is "open source" and that Bruce comments on the story, so as not to be flamedabout this: > > > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6352301.html?tag=prntfr > > short term and off-the-cuff, my first reaction is 'those dirty > bastards'... but then i begin to realize that they're cutting > their own throat. in the end, quality will prevail. > > -- > I'd concentrate on "living in the now" because it is fun > and on building a better world because it is possible. > - Tod Steward I just love the very last paragraph. It reflects exactly my impressions. The big players got an eye on open-source. What confuses me a little is that Microsoft's marketing department wasn't able to stop this stupid thing. Why do they help us to get so much public attention? Oracle's attempt just to say "we don't see any real competition ..." was IMHO alot smarter. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== JanWieck@Yahoo.com # _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Read the O'Reilly article and see what you think http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <wsheldah@lexmark.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] no comment > > > It appears to me that Microsoft's license is worded broadly enough to apply to > the BSD license as well. <snip>