Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant
Date: 2004-07-12 23:25:31
Message-ID: 1089674731.15640.150.camel@camel
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On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 16:35, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > that he "Used Daniel's Elephant", which I believe refers to Daniel
> > Lundin, though I don't recognize that name. Note also that that page
> > indicates that those logo's are for the community, not the corporation,
> > which in essence would mean that the company has posted that the logo is
> > for the community.
>
> I think the real problem is that while the community elephant and the
> postgresql, inc. elephant is the same, there is a unintended endorsement
> by the community to postgresql, inc.
>
> This is by no means a slam on postgresql, inc but it seems the community
> has always tried to be very business neutral and per Marc's own email
> the elephants should be different.
>

For the record pgsql.inc isnt the only company using the logo, they're
just more prominent about it than others.

Robert Treat
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