Open Source Ingres for Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:47:42PM -0500, Francois Ouellette wrote:
[snip]
> Again, if you spend some minutes reading the licence agreement (also a link
> on the page)
> http://www3.ca.com/Files/Licensing/trusted_open_source_license.pdf
> it says that CA remains the proprietor of the original source code. No fee
> to download or use the product.
> If you want to change the code you can and must indicate in your changes
> which code is yours.  Simple, no?

Hmm.

...
printf("Results:\n"); /* LS added the ':' */ /* The preceeding comment is
      			mine */ /* So was that comment and this one */
...

At what point are you going to far in indicating changes? :)

> I don't understand the aggressivity of the people who responded to my
> original post! I was just mentioning
> that Ingres was now available and worth looking at. The product was
> originally released in the late 1970's and today's
> open source version is the next of a series of releases that were developed
> since then.

Many people are very attached to their current favourite open source
database.

> The replies that came back seem to come from people who know nothing about
> the
> product and make (uninformed) statements about its quality or functionality
> :-)
> Ingres, as noted before, was a product whose development was driven by
> Michael Stonebreaker, ask him if he knew about ACID transactions!
> 
> Perhaps what we need is an Open Mind community to go with the Source :-)

But open source people also like to challange any and all claims and
statements. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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