From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Matthew Terenzio <matt(at)jobsforge(dot)com> |
Cc: | PgSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase |
Date: | 2005-10-13 02:17:35 |
Message-ID: | 16563.1129169855@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Matthew Terenzio <matt(at)jobsforge(dot)com> writes:
> As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring
> him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up
> camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a
> while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a
> domain name or person.
Yeah, I was thinking that myself: even if a hostile group managed to
obtain control of the trademark and/or domain name, they could not kill
the project. We'd just regroup under a new name --- it'd slow us down
for a bit, sure, but no more. The project name has changed once
already, remember.
The only serious threat I see on the horizon is patent issues. Again,
I don't think that could kill us over the long term --- we could surely
write our way out of any noncritical patents (see recent ARC fiasco for
a fire drill of this nature), and we ourselves are prior art with which
to defeat any patents on critical algorithms. A patent lawsuit could
certainly hurt us, if only by soaking up the time and attention of key
developers, but I don't think it could kill the project.
regards, tom lane
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