X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650E330F45D; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:59:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77056-05; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:59:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (momjian.navpoint.com [207.106.42.251]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78D130F41C; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:59:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h5MLxT720807; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:59:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: interesting PHP/MySQL thread In-Reply-To: <200306211146.41852.josh@agliodbs.com> To: Josh Berkus Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Joe Conway , "Advocacy (PostgreSQL)" , PostgreSQL-general X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200306/154 X-Sequence-Number: 1366 Josh Berkus wrote: > Joe, > > > Interesting thread (php-dev subj: removing bundled libmysql): > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105621066832429&w=2 > > > > I particularly liked this post: > > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105621207500778&w=2) > > Boy, Monty's making friends all over, ain't he? [ CC to general.] [ MySQL changes client library to GPL.] This is _very_ interesting, and not surprising. MySQL got users to adopt MySQL, then they change the client license to get users to purchase commercial, non-GPL licenses. We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to PostgreSQL. Notice the second URL mentions Interbase before PostgreSQL, which I find curious. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073