Re: Does this look ethical to you?

I can't agree more.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:16
To: Tony Caduto
Cc: Magnus Hagander; Dave Page; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does this look ethical to you?


The people who develop, package, and host pginstaller files are doing so
to promote open source software for users, not to help you sell
commercial software.  For that, you are on your own.

If you want to find volunteers to help you promote and sell your
software, good luck.  :-)

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Tony Caduto wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>   > We (pginstaller hat goes on) don't know of any competing products. We
> > will be happy to consider bundling any competing product, including PG
> > Lightning Admin. One of the most important things in order to be
> > distributed as part of an open source product is that the parts are open
> > source. If PGLA (or a lite version if necessary) is available under an
> > OSS license, we'll definitly consider bundling it.
> > (We have considered bundling phpPgAdmin, but haven't found a good way to
> > do it without dragging in a huge load of dependencies)
>
> I don't wan't to be bundled, I just want it to be known that there are
> alternatives available.
>
> Postgresql is free, so what is the big deal about letting users know
> about alternative admin tools comercial or open source?  It's not like
> it would put pgAdmin or Postgresql out of business(it could only help).
>
> It's a shame you don't see how the bundling of pgAdmin(in the current
> way) is hurting the 3rd party community.
>
> All that would be needed is a installer section at the end saying
> something like:
> In addition to pgAdmin III there are other opensource and commercial
> admin products available, you can get more information here <link back
> to postgresql home page>.
>
> I don't see that as being detrimental to anyone and would certainly be
> in fair play.
>
> --
> Tony Caduto
> AM Software Design
> Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
>
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