Re: New competition from Microsoft?

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New competition from Microsoft?
Date: 2016-03-07 22:26:11
Message-ID: 20160307222610.GH3127@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Joe Conway (mail(at)joeconway(dot)com) wrote:
> On 03/07/2016 01:43 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
> > http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=67248
> >
> > Once SQL Server is available on Linux, we're going to see more people
> > using it as an alternative to PostgreSQL. Especially since they're
> > picking up a lot of our better features, like R support.
>
> IANAL, but I wonder how they can have R support given that libR.so is
> GPL licensed, not LPGL? Have they open sourced SQL Server?

I thought they had purchased/partnered with an R implementor that didn't
use the GPL one...

Thanks!

Stephen

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