Re: Time to start the PR machine

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:01:19PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>
>>>Emphasize the freedom of the BSD license?
>>>
>>>
>>Again, in "about PostgreSQL".
>>
>>
>
>I'm not sure what the best way to do this is, but I think more emphasis
>about what being BSD licensed means for corporations would be good.
>We're seeing companies that are pleasantly surprised to find out how
>much more flexible dealing with PostgreSQL is from a licensing
>standpoint than certain other 'free as in herpes' databases.
>
>
I can concur with this. I have had several large customers
come to CMD + PostgreSQL, just because the other guys
are GPL.

It didn't matter that we were a better database. They just
didn't like the license.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake





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