Re: Sourceforge on Oracle?

From: J Smith <dark_panda(at)hushmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sourceforge on Oracle?
Date: 2001-11-12 20:41:48
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Here's another interesting tidbit -- if you check out the SourceForge
project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/alexandria/, it seems
they've taken down all of their published code and closed their CVS
repository. Nice.

J

Earlier, I wrote:

>
> Although my submission to /. on the subject was rejected, they posted
> something similar today. Tim responded to one of my posts with the
> following:
>
> "I decided to let go of the wreckage called VA Linux about 2 1/2 months
> ago, so I'm not involved.
>
> The switch to closed-source and Oracle is a result of the... shall we
> say... lack of success in the sales department while the open source code
> was available."
>
> FWIW.
>
> J
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>> I just read that the new commercial version of Sourceforge will _only_
>>> run on Linux/Oracle:
>>> http://www.idg.net/ic_724290_1773_1-3921.html
>>
>> I suppose it'd be inappropriate to post this link on Slashdot under
>> a heading like "SourceForge Sells Out: No more open-source database
>> support" ...
>>
>> Tim Perdue read this list last I heard, wonder if he's going to weigh
>> in on this thread?
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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