Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
Date: 2002-05-03 13:24:01
Message-ID: 20020503102331.R97878-100000@mail1.hub.org
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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> 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. :-)

"not cheating our SOs", !"not cheating on our SOs" ... you add an 'on'
there that wasn't actually there :)

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