Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

From: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
Date: 2002-05-02 00:31:05
Message-ID: 200205020031.g420V5W14247@saturn.janwieck.net
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cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com wrote:
> > mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> > > Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement?
>
> > Nope. Given the wide variety of views among the developer community,
> > I think we'd have a tough time agreeing on a mission statement, unless
> > it was so generic as to be meaningless ...
>
> Well, I think one of the things that has been agreed on that _isn't_
> that generic is:
> "We use a Berkeley style license, and prefer it that way."

Does that now count as a mission? Whow, didn't know that I am
on a mission! What in our mission is mission critical? What
are our defined mission goals?

Jan :-)

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