Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > After careful consideration, I have decided to accept a job with Great
> > Bridge.
>
> Whatever happened to this:
>
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 15:19:48 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
> Cc: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Steering committee responce to Great Bridge LLC
>
> : One thing we have agreed to is that there must not be an unseemly fraction
> : of core members working for the same company. With six people on core,
> : probably about two working at the same company would be a reasonable
> : limit.
Been in Poland for a week, so pardon for the delay.
Initially it was (if I recall correct) Vadim's and my idea.
The main reason behind it wasn't to avoid influence from
commercial entities into core. We've all been working
together for years as a group with great honour and trusting,
so the aims of all core members where never questioned. We
just decided this "fraction" to avoid any hireing to look
like a takeover.
This world is spinning a little fast at the moment. Let me
repeat what I said to a person I met last week in Poland,
during a PosrgreSQL conference in Wierzba. We have a BSD
license and now I know a good reason why we kept it all the
time. With that license in place, there's absolutely no
reason to panic right now. Nothing can be taken away, and if
things go wrong in the future, those left in the "OpenSource"
corner can start from our last official release again - be
sure I'll be somewhere in that corner, even if it might take
some time before I can surface again. And I'm sure I'll meet
all those I loved to work with together in that corner again.
Never underestimate the power of Open Source.
Jan
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