Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On 12/19/06, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> if the company dies, the community keeps going (as it did after Great
> >> Bridge, without a hickup), but if the community dies, the company dies
> >> too.
>
> > However, in regard to a dying community killing a company, I disagree
> > completely. Commercial software companies most certainly do not rely
> > on outside contribution to survive.
>
> So, I suppose you can give us ten examples of thriving companies based
> on private forks of dead open-source projects?

MySQL? (sorry couldn't resist).

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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