As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring
him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up
camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a
while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a
domain name or person.
On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
Hi,
Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the
project with big money, would that not mean, that the project would
be a good path to earn a lot of money. So, new talented developers
could join the project and see that as a path to high salary jobs??
Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate,
but twisted :)
Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping
PostgreSQL alive as it's "future DB engineer forge".
Definitely ... get new developers involved over here to 'cut their
teeth' and then pull them over there once they are through the
teething period :) Or, encourage them to work here wihle still in
University, learn DB internals ...
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