From: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com, Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:07:37 -0400
Message-ID: <3E9BF609.9030608@mohawksoft.com> (raw)
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Mike Mascari wrote:
>cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
>
>
>> b) We recently were considering how we'd put a sharable Windows box
>> in, at the office. Were considering using VNC to allow it to be
>> accessible. Then someone thought to read the license, only to
>> discover that the license pretty much expressly forbids running
>> "foreign, competing applications" on the platform.
>>
>>It seems pretty plausible that the net result of further development
>>will be platforms that are actively hostile to foreign software.
>>
>>If I suggested that the licensing of Win2003 would expressly forbid
>>installing PostgreSQL, people would rightly accuse me of being a
>>paranoid conspiracy theorist.
>>
>>
>
>I think you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist. :-)
>
>Mike Mascari
>mascarm@mascari.com
>
>
"Just because you're paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you."
Henry Kissinger.
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