| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle tried to buy MySQL |
| Date: | 2006-02-24 17:51:36 |
| Message-ID: | 43FF47A8.7040907@commandprompt.com |
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>> However, since PostgreSQL developers aren't centralized, that would
>> leave Oracle with a problem. Anyone in the world who wanted a job at
>> Oracle could just hack some PostgreSQL code for a couple months :)
>>
>
> Yes, hiring our developers is one of our three risks. The other two are
> a copyright purchase from the owner (Marc),
I think you mean Trademark, at which point we just change our name so no
big deal.
Joshua D. Drake
> or a patent attack.
>
>
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