Galen Boyer wrote: > On 26 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But you are talking in hypotheticals.
so are you. > There is currently no database > software that is free that is anywhere close to as good as the software > from Oracle. since i'm not a database expert, i'll take your word on that. my point is that if all software were to be free in the FSF sense, there would *still* be a need for a database of the same quality as oracle's, and the sheer existence of that need would mean it probably will get developed. as free software, probably, because a world with only free software would make it very impractical to do anything else. >> and even if that did happen, it still does not follow that no-one >> would be able to use a database as good as oracle's: there is no a >> priori reason to assume that in a world where all software is free, >> there couldn't be a high-quality database. > > But there is none today, so your argument has no weight. my argument doesn't depend on whether such software exists today or not. -- Joost Kremers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9) _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
