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Old 04-16-2008, 02:10 AM
Bruce Momjian
 
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Default Re: Official ODBC announcement

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>The driver is still Open Source and still free to those who will be
> >>using or creating software that is GPL compatible.

> >
> >
> > I hear MySQL calling you. Please pick up the phone. :-)

>
> There is a huge difference between the way TrollTech does it and the
> way MySQL does it and you know it.


I don't know it. What is the difference?

> >>Are you forgetting community mailing lists? Community documentation?
> >>Community discussion of API? Bug reporting? Community support? All the
> >>things that make pgfoundry and the PostgreSQL community great?

> >
> >
> > Pgfoundry is for community development of software. Yours is not that
> > so doesn't belong there. The things that make the PostgreSQL community
> > great are not part of your project, it seems.

>
> Opinions vary.


Well, when you remove "community development" from the equation, there
isn't much left.

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