Re: proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license

Ron Peterson wrote:
> > > I would submit that most businesses don't know the difference.  Perhaps
> > > they need some education.
> >
> > Are you volunteering?
>
> Of course.  As the systems administrator for my company,

One company down. 99,999,999 to go.

> The best argument so far as to how a BSD style license will maintain
> PostgreSQL's viability as an open source project is that if someone take
> the code proprietary, someone else can fork the code and continue
> development as an open source project.
>
> This has happened in PostgreSQL's own history.  How long did it take for
> the project to get picked up again?  How long did it take for the people
> who picked it up to familiarize themselves with the code?  How long did
> it take before the community at large developed any confidence in the
> project's viability?  How much talent was lost?  How many ideas were
> lost?

Are you saying that Illustra destroyed the original postgres project? I
don't buy that. Postgres back then wasn't an open-source project, it was
a university project. The internet wasn't widely used, there was no wide
interest in improving the code.