Re: Big disappointment with Postgres

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:16:39 +1100
Message-ID: <iindj8$5k7$1_at_news.eternal-september.org>

Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 7/02/2011 9:28 AM:

> and may actually become quite large. Problem, however, with many open
> source projects, is that they are frequently overrun by hippies and adopt
> some religious beliefs which can eventually sink them or marginalize
> them.

Please! Let's not insult the hippies!
<g,d&r>

> Examples of such projects are Pascal, Modula-2, ogg and some
> others.

Put Gimp in that group. At one stage, it was a credible alternative to much more expensive editing software. Unfortunately, it's been turned into a joke...

 > Smart thing on the part of Linus Torvalds is precisely the fact
> that he didn't allow that.

Is he still relevant nowadays? Received on Sun Feb 06 2011 - 18:16:39 CST