Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

Your Name <cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com>

From: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-01T23:25:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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."

:-)
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