Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Changes to Contributor List

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place.  We have a
> > list of developers with company names next to them.  Let readers make
> > their own recognition evaluation.
>
> I'm not sure that's all it's for.  Every time we talk about using
> Postgres, people want to know who else uses it.  It's really strange,
> but for some reason, people seem to believe that a product isn't any
> good unless a large number of people are already using it, and that
> it _is_ good if a large number of people do use it.  (I guess the idea
> is that all those Windows users can't be wrong.  Oh, wait. . .)

You have heard the term "first adopters".  These people want to be
second adopters.  :-)

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