Re: PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<ubrnhyi08.fsf_at_standardandpoors.com>...
> On 27 Feb 2004, ed.prochak_at_magicinterface.com wrote:
> > Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message
> > news:<uwu69g7c4.fsf_at_standardandpoors.com>...
> >> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
> >>
> >> > All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away
> >> > for free. I don't care if you personally show up, install
> >> > it, configure it train on it, and then give me a check for
> >> > $50: It is still spam.
> >>
> >> I'm on the fence on this one. What is different from what
> >> this guy posted and what Jonathan Lewis posts every month?
> >

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>
> Well, thanks, and yes, the OP totally errored by multi-posting.
> I also think he chose groups that had no reason to see the
> announcement, like this Oracle group. Leaves a large doubt in my
> mind about the quality of his open source product as well.
>
> I do know that, personally, I'm not interested in the OP's
> product for the main reason that the poster was so oblivious to
> newsgroup charters. But, I disagree with the accusations of his
> financial motives that many posters were posting.

I think my point is, and has been, the announcement is off topic for at least the oracle.misc group, because it is a product announcement. Such announcements might fit in the db2 and sybase groups. I don't read those groups much. But seems to not belong here in oracle.misc

Whether he is or is not making money from it is, IMO, irrelevant.

Have a great day.
  Ed Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 14:01:39 CST