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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-24, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2023-02-24 kl. 22:13, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> 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.
>> 
>
> I would not say "loads of bollocks".

I would, Jan-Erik.

> I'm sure anyone understand that it meant "a license with no cost"...
> And we all know that OSS normaly comes with some kind of license.
>

Unfortunately, there really are some people who seem to think that when
something is Open Source, then that means they can do whatever they want
with it.

I hope the OP isn't one of them, but that's how the above comes across,
especially when you have seen people express those opinions in the past.

Simon.

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