Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>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.
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Your assuming that people are intelligent. In general they are not. In
general
people want to see that Cisco, Afilias, RedHat, ACS etc... use PostgreSQL.
They want graphics, they want teddy bears.

J

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>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. . .)
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