> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > > They need to be educated about us.....
> > > http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html
> >
> > Yeah. I just sent a comment to them on this. I had talked to Marjorie
> > Richards (from memory; I think that is the name) at LinuxWorld in
> > August regarding Postgres articles, and she indicated that they might
> > be interested in principle but that that they had recently done an
> > introductory review article (nice and complimentary btw) and didn't
> > have a specific need for more intro material. We have had mention in
> > other articles since then, as the tool used to implement other apps.
> > But it seems that Doc Searls doesn't read them very carefully ;)
>
> Personally, I think that everyone should go to that article and put in a
> comment to the effect that the Title of the article is inaccurate, and
> insults the whole Open Source movement by claiming that a commercial
> product, going open source, gets labelled as "The first major..."
Totally agree. And as far as I am concerned, Interbase is not major at
all.
So we have a non-major database vendor claiming they are the first major
database vendor to go open-source.
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