Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >>>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project >>>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your >>>> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own. >>> >>> Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples. >> >> And? Seen either of them around lately? > I deny the assertion that "not sharing code" is the reason they > aren't in the market anymore. You have as much proof of that as I have of the opposite, namely none whatsoever. But certainly you can't put them forward today as examples of long-term success of a private fork. regards, tom lane
