| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source |
| Date: | 2006-12-20 03:54:31 |
| Message-ID: | 16380.1166586871@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/19/06, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> if the company dies, the community keeps going (as it did after Great
>> Bridge, without a hickup), but if the community dies, the company dies
>> too.
> However, in regard to a dying community killing a company, I disagree
> completely. Commercial software companies most certainly do not rely
> on outside contribution to survive.
So, I suppose you can give us ten examples of thriving companies based
on private forks of dead open-source projects?
regards, tom lane
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