Le Dimanche 15 Décembre 2002 23:14, Gavin Sherry a écrit :
> Red Hat employ. Tom and some other programmers who work on Postgres. They
> don't appear to drag Tom around the world like a show pony. In fact, Red
> Hat do not do that to any of the programmers they employ. They have to
> make money from that and if that means selling software and services, so
> be it. Anything Red Hat does in marketing the Red Hat Database will help
> PostgreSQL -- it increases the market for open source databases and it
> increases the people's exposure to PostgreSQL.
Dear Gavin,
I agree with you as regards employment and RedHat marketing efforts. My only
concerns are that :
1) Changing PostgreSQL name to RedHat database is unfair and useless.
2) RedHat may close RedHat database sources in a near future.
Kpackage dissapeared from RedHat 8.0. People will soon have to pay to download
RPM packages.
As regards the PostgreSQL license, do you think it is ***technicaly***
possible to close RedHat database sources? I don't know the PostgreSQL
license enough to answer the question. Maybe you know the answer, can it be
done by law?
Cheers,
Jean-Michel