Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:56 am, Jim Mercer wrote:
> i think a mission statement full of boastfulness is just a sound bite, and
> will be dismissed as such.

> if you want the mission statement to have an impact, then it needs to be
> acceptable not only to those who fully embrace it, but also acceptable to
> those who will respect the project from a distance.

> otherwise its not a mission statement, its akin to a corporate cheer.
> ( i'm picturing Steve Balmer's superlative exhaltations to the converted
> http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html )

In the corporate world a mission statement is often the 'sound bite' and a
'corporate cheer'.

I personally think
"To have fun making and improving the most extensible, robust, ACID-compliant
Free database system on the planet" wraps up at least why I think we're all
here. s/Free/Open Source/g if you'd rather not invoke a stallmanism. Or
even s/Free/BSD-licensed/g if you want to really state the obvious. :-)

If other projects' members are insulted by that, then they're just too
sensitive.
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Lamar Owen
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