Open Source Ingres for Linux

[Leigh Honeywell]

Quoting Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:

> SAP-DB is "open source," but there is certainly no public community
> around it.  Just like with MySQL(tm), OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and
> other such products, they are _really_ commercial products with some
> veneer of "try it for free."

I'm not sure if you meant that to come across as dissmissive as it did to me,
but I think that a lot of users of OpenOffice, MySQL, and the various Mozilla
products would disagree with your assessment that we're just getting a "veneer"
of free use.

We're getting the full shebang, and the average home user is getting support
from the community, on IRC, messageboards, or email lists like this, whereas
enterprises can pay the vendors the big bucks to have someone to call.

And while I know that these projects have varying degrees of "openness" in terms
of development process, the communities around OO.o and Mozilla (not just
developpers!) are nothing to scoff at :-)

Just wanted to chip in, because I think that it's important to recognize the
value that both the user-driven communities and the commercial professional
services having to do with OSS are to the eventual success of the model.

-Leigh
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