Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place. We have a
> > list of developers with company names next to them. Let readers make
> > their own recognition evaluation.
>
> I'm not sure that's all it's for. Every time we talk about using
> Postgres, people want to know who else uses it. It's really strange,
> but for some reason, people seem to believe that a product isn't any
> good unless a large number of people are already using it, and that
> it _is_ good if a large number of people do use it. (I guess the idea
> is that all those Windows users can't be wrong. Oh, wait. . .)

You have heard the term "first adopters". These people want to be
second adopters. :-)

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