Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>
To: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-02T00:31:05Z
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."

    Does that now count as a mission? Whow, didn't know that I am
    on a mission!  What in our mission is mission critical?  What
    are our defined mission goals?


Jan :-)

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