From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Gary MacDougall <gary(at)freeportweb(dot)com> |
Cc: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: beta testing version |
Date: | 2000-12-04 03:18:00 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0012032315230.468-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Gary MacDougall wrote:
> I'm agreeing with the people like SePICK and erServer.
> I'm only being sort of cheeky in saying that they wouldn't have had a
> product had
> it not been for the Open Source that they are leveraging off of.
So, basically, if I hadn't pulled together Thomas, Bruce and Vadim 5 years
ago, when Jolly and Andrew finished their graduate thesis, and continued
to provide the resources required to bring PgSQL from v1.06 to now, we
wouldn't be able to use that as a basis for third party applications
... pretty much, ya, that sums it up ...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
> To: "Gary MacDougall" <gary(at)freeportweb(dot)com>
> Cc: "mlw" <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>; "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>; "Thomas
> Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>; "Don Baccus"
> <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>; "PostgreSQL Development"
> <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 7:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version
>
>
> > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Gary MacDougall wrote:
> >
> > > > If you write a program which stands on its own, takes no work from
> > > > uncompensated parties, then you have the unambiguous right to do what
> > > > ever you want.
> > >
> > > Thats a given.
> >
> > okay, then now I'm confused ... neither SePICK or erServer are derived
> > from uncompensated parties ... they work over top of PgSQL, but are not
> > integrated into them, nor have required any changes to PgSQL in order to
> > make it work ...
> >
> > ... so, where is this whole outcry coming from?
> >
> >
>
>
>
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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