Re: MySQL analysis

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 01:57, Decibel! wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > > On 1/20/2008 8:45 PM, Santiago Zarate wrote:
> > > >Like: If anyone buys and the licence changes... i would start a
> > > >fork... pick up the free code and start a new branch along with other
> > > >developers.
> > >
> > > As has been said many times before, buying Postgres is virtually
> > > impossible because the copyright isn't held by a single entity. So in
> > > the Postgres case, this threat doesn't exist.
> >
> > Not only that, but even if someone did buy the copyright, it doesn't buy
> > them anything because everything is currently under BSD. You could
> > instantly fork the code and lose nothing.
> >
> > Even if someone came along and bought the rights to the name, it still
> > doesn't buy much; we can just change the name.
> >
> > Oh wait, we've tried that... I guess if someone bought the name we
> > really would be hosed! ;P
>
> Hmm.. maybe this should be added to the FAQ... "In fact, PostgreSQL is so
> impervious to corporate take-over, we even have 2 names (postgresql and
> postgres) that they would have to buy rights too in order to force a name
> change. And even then we have a backup name (postgre)!!"

"Postgre --- Our Backup" :-)

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