Обсуждение: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL status report

> Hello,
> 
> Just my IMHO you should not break your tree for commercial and non
> commercial, you can make more than enough money just from offering
> commercial support for the database. 
> 
> If you want to get sickly rich make sure NOBODY can sell it and that they
> can only provide support for it. Look at REDHAT. They sell FREE SOFTWARE,
> or I should say the media and installation book.

We have never suggested splitting the development tree.  Commercial
support is not for us to make money.  Just for us to allow
commercial-level help.

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Hello,
> > 
> > Just my IMHO you should not break your tree for commercial and non
> > commercial, you can make more than enough money just from offering
> > commercial support for the database. 
> > 
> > If you want to get sickly rich make sure NOBODY can sell it and that they
> > can only provide support for it. Look at REDHAT. They sell FREE SOFTWARE,
> > or I should say the media and installation book.
> 
> We have never suggested splitting the development tree.  Commercial
> support is not for us to make money.  Just for us to allow
> commercial-level help.

What he said...

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