Re: Are we losing momentum?

Mike Mascari wrote:

>cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
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>> b) We recently were considering how we'd put a sharable Windows box 
>>    in, at the office.  Were considering using VNC to allow it to be
>>    accessible.  Then someone thought to read the license, only to
>>    discover that the license pretty much expressly forbids running
>>    "foreign, competing applications" on the platform.
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>>It seems pretty plausible that the net result of further development
>>will be platforms that are actively hostile to foreign software.
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>>If I suggested that the licensing of Win2003 would expressly forbid
>>installing PostgreSQL, people would rightly accuse me of being a
>>paranoid conspiracy theorist.
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>I think you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist. :-)
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>Mike Mascari
>mascarm@mascari.com
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"Just because you're paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you."
Henry Kissinger.