Re: Apologies to 2Q

On 20 November 2017 at 20:37, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There were some community members who felt that I exposed 2Q in a negative
> light.[1] That was not my intent. Simon has cleared up a misconception of
> mine about how 2Q handles their closed source version of Postgres with this
> statement:
>
> """
>
> Thanks Shane, that appears correct.
>
> And on the main point of contention: 2ndQuadrant is not migrating
> users to closed versions "as soon as possible", it is simply an extra
> service that customers may choose to utilize if they wish to do so
> because of issues they experience in a current supported version.
>
> """
>
> I want to thank Simon for being clear about what he didn't like about my
> email and for clearing up my statement which may have caused confusion. I
> also want to thank Shane for taking the time to distill the message.
>
> I will iterate that I believe that 2Q and EDB are the primary corporate
> contributors to the PostgreSQL code base and they should both be thanked and
> we should be gracious to those contributing companies.

Thanks very much for your apology.

> I will also iterate
> that even if 2Q was pushing people to their closed source/supported version
> that I literally DO NOT CARE. PostgreSQL is BSD licensed, if you want to
> close it and build up a customer base on it, GO FOR IT! If you succeed there
> is demand, if you don't there wasn't.

And again, just to clarify, 2ndQuadrant is pushing people towards open
source, not away from it.

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/postgresql/2ndquadrants-passion-postgresql/

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