Jonathon & others wrote:
It's an interesting article, though it does seem to be afflicted by
the amazingly contagious disease of believing only in "commercial open
source", in spite of referencing some large non-commercial (ie
community-driven) projects, and not really differentiating the really
very significant factors involved in each.
I don't have the article in front of me, but there was a critical sentence in
there. The quote from Pervasive dropping support said something about the
couldn't respond as fast or as good as the community already was.
I can attest to that. I posted a question on the postgreSQL mailing list at 11am
this morning, and I had 5 good responses before lunch.
Hard to sell against free.
Oh wait.
When I grew up water was free. I just saw water for $5 at an airport last week.
Perhaps when Hillary gets in there she'll pass a law that they must have free
filtered water fountains next to water in those sport bottles.
--
Walter
