Re: proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license

Chris ... kill this thread :)  Ron and I talked in the background and I
guess he got confused by Bruce's HISTORY in his book ... he got the
impression that things got "bounced around" a few times, and didn't
realize that it was all fluid from the days of Jolly/Andrew into us, with
a slow down before I kickstarted things in '96 ...



On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:

> 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.
>

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