Subject: Re: Lisp success stories
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:39:57 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <n-adnZLoQdtggP7fRVn-pg@speakeasy.net>
Christopher Browne  <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
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| The fundamental reason why people were interested in the "free
| software" thing in the first place was the absence of licensing fees.
| Put license fees back into the equation and it ain't "free" no more...
| 
| Someone opened a ticket in the ticketing system at work this week
| asking to build a system on which to run MySQL(tm); they were
| apparently making the error of thinking they didn't have to buy
| licenses to the database software.
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Which is why I use PostgreSQL. That, and the fact that it's more
stable, robust, etc. ;-}


-Rob

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