Re: New competition from Microsoft?

* Joe Conway (mail@joeconway.com) wrote:
> On 03/07/2016 01:43 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
> > http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=67248
> >
> > Once SQL Server is available on Linux, we're going to see more people
> > using it as an alternative to PostgreSQL.  Especially since they're
> > picking up a lot of our better features, like R support.
>
> IANAL, but I wonder how they can have R support given that libR.so is
> GPL licensed, not LPGL? Have they open sourced SQL Server?

I thought they had purchased/partnered with an R implementor that didn't
use the GPL one...

Thanks!

Stephen