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I completely agree. It's human nature to become defensive when presented with conflict with your current way of thinking, and yet here they didn't do that. I t
by Osiris 10y ago
I completely agree. It's human nature to become defensive when presented with conflict with your current way of thinking, and yet here they didn't do that.
I thought that this article was a very well reasoned and thoughtful response to the Uber article and gives me hope that PostgreSQL will continue to improve.
- mappu 10y ago> It's human nature to become defensive when presented with conflict with your current way of thinking, and yet here they didn't do that. I wonder if this attitude is correlated with their choice of the more laissez-faire BSD license compared to GPL MySQL. It seems to indicate a less strong personality attachment to the project.
- icebraining 10y agoThe MySQL license was a commercial decision by the company (MySQL AB) so that they could also sell proprietary licenses to businesses.
- Ziomislaw 10y agoThe reason for using a particular license at "some company" has nothing to do with a community preferences regarding GPL or BSD. Not agreeing nor disagreeing with BSDvsGPL theory, just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.
- RCortex 10y ago> "It's human nature" Rather than making difficult-to-prove statements about humans that imply some sort of just moral backing for behavior, perhaps we should just refer to it as "something [lots of] people do."