Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?
Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-03T13:24:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On 2 May 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > > The Politically Correct mission statement follows: > > > > The PostgreSQL community is committed to creating and maintaining a good > > but not the best, mostly reliable, open-source multi-purpose standards > > based database, and with it, promote free and open source software and > > other worthy causes world wide and to not hurting anyones feelings in doing so. > > We are also committed to not cheating our SOs, not charging too much for > > our services nor eating too much and to recommending products of our > > commercial competitors before ours in order to help them fullfil their > > obligations to their stockholders. > > As a practicing polyamorist, I find the part about not cheating on our SOs > highly offensive. :-) "not cheating our SOs", !"not cheating on our SOs" ... you add an 'on' there that wasn't actually there :)