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Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?


  • From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: "Tony Caduto" <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, "Postgres General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:41:44 -0800
  • Message-id: <20080131174144.2fe4341c@commandprompt.com> <text/plain>

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:04:53 +1300
"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> wrote:
> > The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most
> > desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use
> > PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry.

> While I'm a big fan of the BSD license (for varied reasons) I think
> that OpenSource hardliners like RMS would argue that the BSD license
> is *NOT* in the true spirit of OpenSource *BECAUSE* of what you list
> as a bonus of it ... the locking down of benefits reaped from
> OpenSource not getting back into the stream.

RMS wouldn't make any such argument at all. His argument would be
centered around FREE not OpenSource software.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
> 


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