| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL in the press again |
| Date: | 2004-11-10 19:36:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20041110193650.GF23255@phlogiston.dyndns.org |
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:03:10AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I don't agree with this. Free software is an ideology and has nothing
> to do with wether or not it is commercial. You can have commercial
> Free Software. Red Hat is commercial Free Software as is SuSE or JBoss.
But my experience as a consumer of all of those very products has
not been what my experience of real commercial products has been.
And as I say, that cuts both ways. (I agree that the terminology is
probably considerably less good. Something more neutral would be
helpful. I don't find "Open Source" any more neutral, BTW, mostly
because of the bombs that get thrown over these terms.)
A
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Andrew Sullivan | ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca
The fact that technology doesn't work is no bar to success in the marketplace.
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