pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/31/2005 01:14:57 PM: <snip> > > And I daresay that this _can_ be an attractive thing to businesses, > supposing they offer a "production release," gratis. > <snip> True, as long as there is no license clause for future revocation of the free license at the vendor's whim. Kinda like the M$ clause in their *open* XML standard. Also, without source, deployments still are under threat of discontinued support. Kinda like Solaris 9 when Sun said they didn't know whether the x86 version would be released. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly