Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

From: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
To: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-02T01:05:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
> 
> > mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> > > Just out of curiosity, does PostgreSQL have a mission statement?
> 
> > Nope.  Given the wide variety of views among the developer community,
> > I think we'd have a tough time agreeing on a mission statement, unless
> > it was so generic as to be meaningless ...
> 
> Well, I think one of the things that has been agreed on that _isn't_
> that generic is:
>   "We use a Berkeley style license, and prefer it that way."

No! no! no! Don't even kid like that. EVERY time that debate is even mentioned,
it goes on for days.