Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:<c9eund$n3a$1_at_news3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>...
> Galen Boyer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 31 May 2004, hjr_at_dizwell.com wrote:
> >
> >>You and Galen happen to have decided amongst yourselves, in
> >>that scratch-and-match way you described in another part of the
> >>thread, that "free" means "costing nothing", and nothing
> >>else. As we discovered elsewhere in the thread, you did much
> >>the same for the word "sell".
> >
> >
> > Well, I'm just trying to explain what I know the free software
> > society defines as free. To the regular Joe, say the word free
> > and it means no money passed hands, so that is how the word has
> > morphed, but "free software" has in its contract, the "GNU
> > General Public License" and in that document, there is very
> > little about money, and all about making sure the code stays
> > "free" of software patents.
> >
> > I know the market uses the term "free software", but they are
> > almost always talking about open-source software.
> >
>
> Absolutely do not want to get involved, and did not follow
> much of this thread but I recall one explanation:
> "It's free software as in Freedom of choice, not as in Free beer".
> Hmmm - while writing this, I decided to check with gnu:
> there it is: "Free as in Freedom" is on the GNU Organization home
> page (http://www.gnu.org/). Just one click away
> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) :
> <quote>
> ``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the
> concept, you should think of ``free'' as in ``free speech,'' not as in
> ``free beer.''
> </quote>

Jeez, didn't I say something like that like a hunert messages ago?

jg

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