Re: PostgreSQL derivatives

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Seth Grimes" <grimes(at)altaplana(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL derivatives
Date: 2008-06-13 07:43:50
Message-ID: 937d27e10806130043p361454coe246571f2722dd23@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:26 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:21 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:42 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> > > Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> > I do. Non-profit organisations must be run "without fear or favour"
>> and
>>
>> Well PostgreSQL.Org is not a non profit organization
>
> That is news to me. Who gets the financial profits then? Why are we
> registering in various countries as a non-profit?

postgresql.org isn't, and never has registered as a non-profit. We
have individual user groups that are registering themselves around the
world, but they are organised independently of postgresql.org, though
obviously there is overlap in the people involved and mission etc.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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