Open Source Ingres for Linux

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On March 16, 2005 19:47, 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?

Simple but not really free, as in libre.

[snip]

> I don't understand the aggressivity of the people who responded to my
> original post!

I would not necessarily characterize it as "aggressivity" but more like 
healthy skepticism. This industry is full of hype, perhaps more so than any 
other. Companies jump on and off bandwagons quickly. The current bandwagon 
seems to be "Open Source" so some companies figure that if they sprinkle that 
Open Source pixie dust all over their products, that it will instantly appeal 
to a whole new segment. It just does not work that way. If we can take TLUG 
as a microcosm of the larger Open Source community, you can see that it is a 
tough sell.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
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