Re: Does this look ethical to you?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net]
> Sent: 24 January 2006 14:22
> To: Tony Caduto; Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Does this look ethical to you?
>
>
> > pgAdmin does not play fair either, if you want to talk fair
> > maybe a link should be placed in the windows pgAdmin
> > installer informing users of other comercially available options.
>
> You're kidding, right? Should we also mention in the PostgreSQL
> installer that you should perhaps look at Oracle or DB2? And
> I don't see
> most Linux distributions informing the users that Windows might be an
> alternative.

Deja-vu...

> We *do* put up links to commercial management software on the website
> (PostgreSQL website, because that's where it applies), and we
> post news
> about it. IMHO, that's about as far as "the project" should go when it
> comes to "free marketing for commercial software".

Agreed. And as I'm sure Tony will recall, not only do we offer that
service, it was actually me that created the page on the site originally
for Lightning Admin which was the first product listed!

Regards, Dave.