[Info-vax] Migrating from Rdb to Open Source Postgres

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri Feb 24 16:13:04 EST 2023


On 2023-02-24, Denys Beauchemin <denysftr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the last several years, Postgres has acquired a solid reputation as a
> dependable, mission-critical RDBMS.  One of its benefit is that it?s Open
> Source, ie, license free.  You can install it on as many servers as you want,
> with any number of CPUs, for any number of users, no charge.  
>

Well, that's a load of bollocks.

Open Source software is not the same thing as licence-free software
and the vast majority of it _is_ released under a licence.

I hope you have more respect for Open Source software elsewhere than
that if you use any of it in your own software.

Simon.

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