Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant
Date: 2004-07-12 19:44:23
Message-ID: 200407121244.23532.josh@agliodbs.com
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Peter,

> There is no conflict. If a company calls itself PostgreSQL, Inc., then
> it will logically use the PostgreSQL elephant as its logo. If you feel
> there is a conflict then the conflict is really a company calling
> itself PostgreSQL, Inc. That was not particularly wise, but I don't
> really consider it a problem. But the logo is really a much smaller
> subset problem.

You missed part of Lamar's commentary: apparently the BEH logo belonged to
PostgreSQL Inc. and we started using it, not the other way around. So the
logo is theirs and we copied it.

Which *definitely* wasn't smart.

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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