Right. Though there are attacks, there are no fatal attacks. MySQL has to make money, so they can have fatal attacks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Lane wrote: > Matthew Terenzio <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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. > > Yeah, I was thinking that myself: even if a hostile group managed to > obtain control of the trademark and/or domain name, they could not kill > the project. We'd just regroup under a new name --- it'd slow us down > for a bit, sure, but no more. The project name has changed once > already, remember. > > The only serious threat I see on the horizon is patent issues. Again, > I don't think that could kill us over the long term --- we could surely > write our way out of any noncritical patents (see recent ARC fiasco for > a fire drill of this nature), and we ourselves are prior art with which > to defeat any patents on critical algorithms. A patent lawsuit could > certainly hurt us, if only by soaking up the time and attention of key > developers, but I don't think it could kill the project. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
