From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: postgre vs MySQL |
Date: | 2008-03-17 15:54:16 |
Message-ID: | 20080317085416.51bfecc5@commandprompt.com |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:26:35 -0500
Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> wrote:
> > While I agree companies are likely to get annoyed - just like fast
> > food companies do when you say how much trans-fats their products
> > contain; I'm rather curious what such a cease&desist letter would
> > say.
>
> Probably just a firm, but polite, request to quit it. I'd say that
> with a completely open piece of software like Postgres, i.e. where
> no commercial licensing is involved, the question is more ethical
> than legal. In fact, I can't think of a situation where "mind your
> own business" could be take more literally :)
Sometimes they may also claim trademark or trade secret issues.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drkae
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