Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:22, Christopher Browne wrote:
> In the last exciting episode, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
> > Does a solution have to be Open Source to be touted?
>
> Well, vendors of proprietary solutions are normally expected to _pay_ to
> get their products advertised.
>

Exactly, it's not even remotely the responsibility of the community to
promote non-community projects. The community should focus on what it is
releasing. I don't see where any commercial products fit into said
release as they are not what is being released and that is the point of
a press release.

Proprietary solutions have the ability to release their own press
releases at any moment. Marketing for said products should be touted by
their own marketing department. I thought this was the PostgreSQL
Advocacy list. ;-) I'm here to promote a kickass open source project.

> MySQL(tm) appears to be treated as an exception to that rule, in the
> "open source" community, which seems unfair, but that's presumably a
> matter for some other thread.

Which is one reason why I like PostgreSQL more than I do MySQL. ;-)

*runs back to tout'n PostgreSQL to all his neighbors*

-Robby

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