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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-02-27 kl. 01:28, skrev 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,...

It was quite obvious that what was meant was "with no cost".
And I think that that was how most read it.
You just read too much into it. Cool down...




> especially when you have seen people express those opinions in the past.
> 
> Simon.
>