Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

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> For exsample, if I have a product that I built for a customer, I would
> have to give it to them under the GPL. But I also have the choice to not
> give it to them AT ALL. So, they pay me to get it, and the license is
> the GPL. Their other choice, if they didn't pay me, would be to not have
> it at all. It's likely that I could sell this same software to multiple
> entities, because the likelihood of the first company having the time,
> personel, and motivation to just giving it away on the Internet are very
> small.
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In summary, you could be charging them for some very expensive courier
services, if for which they don't pay then you won't deliver. =)

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