Bruce Momjian wrote:
Josh Berkus wrote:
Josh, Hans, et. al.
Please take this thread OFF LIST IMMEDIATELY.
Its content is no longer appropriate for the Hackers mailing list, and we get
enough traffic. Flamewars are not a part of our community.
[ Moved to advocacy.]
Let me try to get this discussion on the right track. Joshua Drake is
saying some companies want a commercial version of PostgreSQL so they
have someone to support it, while Hans is saying that makes it sound
like Command Prompt is the only one supporting PostgreSQL.
Hans, I don't see Josh Drake saying that having a commercial release of
PostgreSQL is _required_ for a company to support PostgreSQL. In fact,
he supports source installs of PostgreSQL too. He is only saying that
some people prefer a commercial version of PostgreSQL because they
_think_ they will get better support. I know that might not make sense,
but open source is new to lots of people so maybe it makes them more
comfortable. In fact, if you go into a site and install PostgreSQL,
they might think you are installing _your_ version of PostgreSQL, while
in fact is it the source version of PostgreSQL.
I think you missed the "liability" part of Joshua Drake's mail.
Using a binary installation provided by the company you have a support
contract with leaves much less room for discussions about "what is
supported". What "product liability" is someone talking about if he
never bought any product?
Jan
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