Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken
Date: 2007-10-15 16:56:00
Message-ID: 20071015095600.59a0a7eb@scratch
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:56:19 +0100
Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:

> > It depends on what you are meaning by "commercial". This is a common
> > problem amongst FOSS people. FOSS can be commercial. I would
> > actually argue that EnterpriseDB Postgres *is* commercial as it is
> > backed and supported by a *commercial* Enterprise.
> >
> > The real question is, "is it proprietary". If it is even partially
> > closed source then it really doesn't belong in the "postgresql
> > family product" unless we also include MPP and Replicator.
>
> You know what I mean :-). And all of EDB-Postgres is open source,
> including the funky little MySQL migrator tool in the latest builds.

Yes I know what you mean :) but others may not, so I am trying to be
specific.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> /D
>

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