On 2 May 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> The Politically Correct mission statement follows:
>
> The PostgreSQL community is committed to creating and maintaining a good
> but not the best, mostly reliable, open-source multi-purpose standards
> based database, and with it, promote free and open source software and
> other worthy causes world wide and to not hurting anyones feelings in doing so.
> We are also committed to not cheating our SOs, not charging too much for
> our services nor eating too much and to recommending products of our
> commercial competitors before ours in order to help them fullfil their
> obligations to their stockholders.
As a practicing polyamorist, I find the part about not cheating on our SOs
highly offensive. :-)