Re: PGCon vs Postgresql Conference

On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Sim Zacks wrote:

>> Anyway my suggestion to Sim is to read about each conference on the
>> respective conference websites:
>> http://www.postgresqlconference.org/why/
>> http://www.pgcon.org/2008/
> I read those, I was just confused as to why there were 2
> conferences on the same topics one right after the other.
> Someone mentioned that one is commercial and the other is not-for-
> profit, so someone might define PGCon as proprietary and say the
> postgresqlconference is open source, but that would start a flame
> war and would be inappropriate being that both of them are
> supporting open source software, and nobody is against making a
> profit (except Communists, and they're not against profit as long
> as the guy who worked hard to earn it doesn't get to keep it).

So, at which should one wear red?

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