Re: Are we losing momentum?

From: mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com, Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: 2003-04-15 12:07:37
Message-ID: 3E9BF609.9030608@mohawksoft.com
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Mike Mascari wrote:

>cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com wrote:
>
>
>> b) We recently were considering how we'd put a sharable Windows box
>> in, at the office. Were considering using VNC to allow it to be
>> accessible. Then someone thought to read the license, only to
>> discover that the license pretty much expressly forbids running
>> "foreign, competing applications" on the platform.
>>
>>It seems pretty plausible that the net result of further development
>>will be platforms that are actively hostile to foreign software.
>>
>>If I suggested that the licensing of Win2003 would expressly forbid
>>installing PostgreSQL, people would rightly accuse me of being a
>>paranoid conspiracy theorist.
>>
>>
>
>I think you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist. :-)
>
>Mike Mascari
>mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com
>
>
"Just because you're paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you."
Henry Kissinger.

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