Re: Final Copy Edit: Press Release, Page

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Final Copy Edit: Press Release, Page
Date: 2004-11-09 20:43:43
Message-ID: 20041109164303.Q31970@ganymede.hub.org
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:23:57PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'd like to have one or two people look over the PR stuff one last time now
>> that it's all together. Here's what I'm wanting:
>>
>
> Other people already caught the typos I saw. I find this pretty
> strange, though: "PostgreSQL is the collective work of hundreds of
> developers, building on almost twenty years of development dating
> back to the University of California at Berkeley."
>
> UC Berkeley is not a date, so nothing could date back to it. I'd
> suggest "almost twenty years of development, which started at the
> University of California at Berkeley" or something like that. It's
> still awkward, though. Anyone got something better?

"... building on almost twenty years of development, originating at the
University of California at Berkeley."?

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