Re: Grass Root Protectionism

From: John Hasler <john(at)dhh(dot)gt(dot)org>
To: Boycott Tech Forums <boycotttechforums(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Grass Root Protectionism
Date: 2009-02-08 17:20:00
Message-ID: 873aeoc0cf.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> Without non-US developers, Postgres would be less than half what it is
> today

Without non-US developers, Postgres would be _much_ less than half what it
is today, just as it would be much less than half of what it is today
without US developers. Cooperation, like trade, is a positive sum game.

> It is US people who are benefitting more from the relationship, not
> non-US people.

All are benefitting. The notion that someone is "winning" and therefor
someone else must be "losing" is the OP's false thesis.
--
John Hasler
john(at)dhh(dot)gt(dot)org
Elmwood, WI USA

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