X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2FDD1B9AA for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:13:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95608-06 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:13:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.pha.pa.us [207.106.42.251]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B305D1C4EC for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:13:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i3NHDJE19883; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:13:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200404231713.i3NHDJE19883@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL? In-Reply-To: <200404231003.17380.josh@agliodbs.com> To: Josh Berkus Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:13:19 -0400 (EDT) Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL108 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/160 X-Sequence-Number: 4132 Josh Berkus wrote: > This last lesson was really driven home to me at the Open Source Business > Convention; managers were slavering all over "dual licensing" as the "new > model of open source." When I pointed out that there's another name for > dual licensing -- "shareware" -- I got some real uncomfortable silences. > Seems that a lot of companies want the fruits of Open Source without changing > the way they do business at all. Big surprise, eh? Agreed. I see dual-license as an interim step for companies moving from close to true open source. -- 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