Re: Re: [HACKERS] My new job

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:06:37PM -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
> Adam Lang wrote:

> Well to calm any fears of Great Bridge taking over what exactly are the
> terms of employment? Are the developers merely continuing on with what
> they were working on and now getting paid for it, or is Great Bridge
> saying here are the projects we want done so do it.

"merely?"

    I've told many people that postgres is one of the best-managed
(open-source or otherwise) projects I've seen.  The core group knows the
code, the deadlines, the bugs, and the solutions.

    My feeling:
    The source is open and you are free to do whatever you want with it.
If Great Bridge decides that they want to make postgresql into the best
damn pinball simulator they can, that is their perogative.  If the
core developers decide they want to get paid to write a pinball
simulator, theat that is their gig and there isn't a damn thing we
can do about it, except branch off and decide not to integrate their
patches.  I would feel very sorry if this happened--and Bruce, Tom,
and the other guys who I can't remember names of all understand this.

    All this whinging about "corperate direction" is really meaningless
unless you are prepared to jump ship or split off in a clone of the
original one.  The code is what you do with it.  We are all lucky that
it is as good and useful as it is right now.


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