Re: PostgreSQL derivatives

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: info(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, 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 15:41:21
Message-ID: 1213371681.11470.271.camel@jd-laptop
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On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:

> Ah, yes, this is certainly something we always want to avoid --- having
> one company be so closely associated with Postgres that people think the
> company owns it and therefore controls it.
>
> Is that a problem now? What things can the community or companies do to
> avoid that? We could scale back contributions, but I am afraid that
> will hurt more than help.

I don't see it as a problem in any way at this point, it used to be... 7
years ago. Now there are just too many companies and contributors
involved.

Joshua D. Drake

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