Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
Date: 2002-05-02 20:44:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0205021443050.5658-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On 2 May 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> The Politically Correct mission statement follows:
>
> The PostgreSQL community is committed to creating and maintaining a good
> but not the best, mostly reliable, open-source multi-purpose standards
> based database, and with it, promote free and open source software and
> other worthy causes world wide and to not hurting anyones feelings in doing so.
> We are also committed to not cheating our SOs, not charging too much for
> our services nor eating too much and to recommending products of our
> commercial competitors before ours in order to help them fullfil their
> obligations to their stockholders.

As a practicing polyamorist, I find the part about not cheating on our SOs
highly offensive. :-)

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