Re: trash talk

Interesting, IBM is saying that the code is worth 85M dollars!

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:19, Scott Ribe wrote:
> > I could be reading it incorrectly, but the paragraph was outside any
> > attributed quote:
>
> You are correct that the specific comment about pg not thriving was outside
> any quotes. However, given the totality of the references to pg I think it
> was a summary of some things Rivot said. As for the point of the square
> brackets, those are an editorial device to clarify a quote based on the
> omitted context. In other words, for this example they mean that Rivot was
> discussing PostgreSQL and that would have been made clear had they provided
> a complete transcript.
>
> Of course it is possible that the author misquoted Rivot, or misinterpreted
> which database he was referring to.
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