From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com |
Cc: | Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Tablespaces |
Date: | 2004-06-11 21:36:53 |
Message-ID: | 200406112136.i5BLar815618@candle.pha.pa.us |
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pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:
>
> >>
> >> We should provide people with the right tools, true, but we
> >> are bound by our conscience to inform them about Windows' failures.
> >
> > It must be nice to be young and still see everything as black and white
> > with no shades of gray.
>
> I wouldn't call 41 very young.
>
> > For those who think that Windows should be
> > canned, Gates should be burned at the stake, and Linux should rule the
> > world, I have no problem with their opinions. We all get to choose what
> > we like and dislike. I think that the typical Linux fan is WAY over the
> > top both in seeing the advantages with rose colored glasses and turing
> > opposition molehills into mountains. But passion is good, and I like to
> > see it. If it were not for the passion of the Linux crowd, there would
> > be a far less interesting competitor for MS and a far less interesting
> > toolset to use with it.
>
> Actually, I am not a wide eyed passionate Linux zealot. Like my support
> for John Kerry, I gladly choose the better side of mediocrity over extream
> evil, it is nothing more than pure practicality.
Well, call me extreme evil too. Then I guess PostgreSQL is partly pure
evil, or partly extreme evil, or something like that.
Of course, if you meet me, I don't appear so. We are taught to hide our
evil so effectively.
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