On 6/3/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday, June 03, 2011 11:21:35 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I'm talking about what would be
>> more in the best interest of the community that they attracted by
>> permitting redistribution of the collated works - and then cut off.
>
> It's in the best interest of the community to have Red Hat in a financially stable position to fund all this good stuff in the first place. If the only way Red Hat can be financially viable is for me to give up the pre-EL ways, then that's fine by me, especially since Red Hat is rather accommodating in terms of the source code.
>
>> Go back and look at the changelogs of programs in the era between the
>> RH 4.x and 9 releases if you don't remember how bad the stuff they initially
>> shipped was or how it got fixed.
>
> Got back and look at the changelogs of the PostgreSQL packages.
Give me a hint about what to look for. As I recall I always installed
postgresql from source in those days because the disto packages were so
far behind or broken. Sort of like apache/mod_perl which was only done
right in the 7.3 release and then broken again in 8.
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