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Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

From: JEDIDIAH <jedi_at_nomad.mishnet>
Date: 27 May 2004 15:29:29 -0400
Message-ID: <slrncbcgmd.p3c.jedi@nomad.mishnet>


On 2004-05-26, Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net> wrote:
>
> "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:40b48b37$0$8987$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Quirk wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Only vendors of free software face different factors.
>>
>> Can someone explain to me how does
>> "free software" get sold by its "vendors"?

The same way that Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Oracle 9i does.

This isn't the realm of (buy a widget and forget about it) consumer software where the only relationship you have through a vendor is that first time sale through CompUSA or BestBuy.

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