| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Time to start the PR machine |
| Date: | 2005-09-30 00:38:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200509291738.30413.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Josh, all:
> >I'm not sure what the best way to do this is, but I think more emphasis
> >about what being BSD licensed means for corporations would be good.
> >We're seeing companies that are pleasantly surprised to find out how
> >much more flexible dealing with PostgreSQL is from a licensing
> >standpoint than certain other 'free as in herpes' databases.
>
> I can concur with this. I have had several large customers
> come to CMD + PostgreSQL, just because the other guys
> are GPL.
Good points all.
However, I'd rather not make a big point of the license in this release.
We did that with the last release (which paid dividends) but I think
everyone knows about it now.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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