Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD
Date: 2006-09-02 14:16:54
Message-ID: 44F99256.5010704@cox.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
>> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project
>>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your
>>> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own.
>
>> Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples.
>
> And? Seen either of them around lately?

I deny the assertion that "not sharing code" is the reason they
aren't in the market anymore.

> (Solaris is still around, of course, but AIUI that's a complete
> rewrite not a continuation of SunOS.)

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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