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Subject: Re: License question
From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@lists.simkin.ca>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:42:52 -0800
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On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 22:47 +0000, Clay Jackson (cjackson) wrote:
>=20
> Are you willing to sign up for "maintaining" PostgreSQL in your
> environment, INCLUDING things like patching, finding and fixing
> bugs, upgrades, backup and recovery, and off-hours support?
>=20

Not sure what your point is, you have to do all that with commercial
software, too. And at least with open source you actually can find
and patch bugs yourself, in theory, although you certainly don't have
to, not with any major project.

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