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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Approval process for news/events/training is broken
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:56:00 -0700
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:56:19 +0100
Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It depends on what you are meaning by "commercial". This is a common
> > problem amongst FOSS people. FOSS can be commercial. I would
> > actually argue that EnterpriseDB Postgres *is* commercial as it is
> > backed and supported by a *commercial* Enterprise.
> > 
> > The real question is, "is it proprietary". If it is even partially
> > closed source then it really doesn't belong in the "postgresql
> > family product" unless we also include MPP and Replicator.
> 
> You know what I mean :-). And all of EDB-Postgres is open source,
> including the funky little MySQL migrator tool in the latest builds.

Yes I know what you mean :) but others may not, so I am trying to be
specific.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> /D
> 


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