Re: Call from Info World

Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:07, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:46, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Bruce,
> > >
> >
> > Here is the article:
> > http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/20/HNpostgre_1.html
> >
> >
> > > > Interestingly, in trying to think of a visible open source project that
> > > > isn't controlled by a company, I couldn't think of one.  Mozilla, PHP,
> > > > Apache, MySQL, even perhaps Linux have one very visible company that has
> > > > significant control over the project, while we do not.  Is there a good
> > > > example someone can think of?
> > >
> > > Perl, amanda, Python, OpenACS and LTSP come to mind.
>
> > Hmm... I don't see amanda, openacs, or ltsp all that visible to the
> > greater tech (ie. commercially driven) community, and Perl and Python
> > aren't really the same; there not a piece of software like postgresql.
>
> How about not-for-profits? FreeBSD, KDE?

I mentioned FreeBSD but that didn't seem to register with him.  I doubt
KDE would either.

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