| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source |
| Date: | 2006-12-20 04:17:11 |
| Message-ID: | 16581.1166588231@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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).
Uh, no, because that was never a genuine open-source (as in
community-owned, community-driven) project --- MySQL AB has always
owned it --- lock, stock, barrel and every single major developer.
Plastering a GPL license on the top of the code tree doesn't
make it into a community project.
Illustra/Ingres would be a valid counterexample in our own historical
tradition, except that they've thrown in the towel recently IIRC?
I'm not aware of too many more. Like I said, if you want to establish
this as the typical case, name ten examples.
regards, tom lane
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