Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

From: Scott Beasley <jscottb(at)infoave(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ansley Michael <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec(dot)co(dot)za>, "'Don Baccus '" <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, "''PostgreSQL-development ' '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source
Date: 2000-01-04 23:41:14
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10001041837590.3445-100000@cowbox.infoave.com
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Makes you wonder what people (companies) are spending their money on.
> > My take on it is that commercial software licensing is, by and large, a
> > hoax.
> >
> > MikeA
>
> My guess is that in most organizations only a handful of people
> understand the code. The rest do support/sales/marketing.
>

Thats the way it is every place I have worked. It's known as the 2/3
rule. 1/3 of your coders actually know what the hell is going on, the
other 2/3's of them are in the dark/do not care/collect a check.

scott

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