| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New competition from Microsoft? |
| Date: | 2016-03-07 22:36:20 |
| Message-ID: | 56DE0264.1000008@joeconway.com |
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On 03/07/2016 02:26 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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...
Microsoft bought Revolution R, but that implementation is still GPL --
it has to be because it is derived from the open source R project which
is GPL.
Anyway, shouldn't we move this to advocacy?
Joe
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