| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Time to start the PR machine |
| Date: | 2005-09-21 06:26:22 |
| Message-ID: | 4330FD0E.4080704@commandprompt.com |
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:01:19PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>
>>>Emphasize the freedom of the BSD license?
>>>
>>>
>>Again, in "about PostgreSQL".
>>
>>
>
>I'm not sure what the best way to do this is, but I think more emphasis
>about what being BSD licensed means for corporations would be good.
>We're seeing companies that are pleasantly surprised to find out how
>much more flexible dealing with PostgreSQL is from a licensing
>standpoint than certain other 'free as in herpes' databases.
>
>
I can concur with this. I have had several large customers
come to CMD + PostgreSQL, just because the other guys
are GPL.
It didn't matter that we were a better database. They just
didn't like the license.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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