Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

From: cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
Date: 2002-05-01 23:25:12
Message-ID: 20020501232512.B6B193702C@cbbrowne.com
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> mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> > Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement?

> Nope. Given the wide variety of views among the developer community,
> I think we'd have a tough time agreeing on a mission statement, unless
> it was so generic as to be meaningless ...

Well, I think one of the things that has been agreed on that _isn't_
that generic is:
"We use a Berkeley style license, and prefer it that way."

:-)
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