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| From | Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> |
| Newsgroups | comp.databases |
| Subject | Re: Simple Database Management Freeware. |
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Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> writes: > On 2011-01-27, Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> wrote: > > If you want to get rid of the Oracle icon [from OpenOffice] > > they own that too?, I think they're trying to corner the market. > > I count 4 databases now. Fortunately, with PostgreSQL, there is no organisation for them to buy out to get control over it. They'd have to do it the legitimate way: contribute code improvements subject to peer review, and have the results released as free software. Somehow I don't see Oracle moving that way any time soon. The folly of copyright assignment policies is looking worse all the time <URL:http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Copyright-assignment-Once-bitten-twice-shy-1049631.html> <URL:http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/01/copyright-not-all-equal.html>. -- \ “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all | `\ others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking | _o__) power called an idea” —Thomas Jefferson | Ben Finney
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