They need to be educated about us.....

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html

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Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:42:41 -0500
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
InterBase interview on Linux Journal
> They need to be educated about us.....
> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html

Yeah. I just sent a comment to them on this. I had talked to Marjorie
Richards (from memory; I think that is the name) at LinuxWorld in
August regarding Postgres articles, and she indicated that they might
be interested in principle but that that they had recently done an
introductory review article (nice and complimentary btw) and didn't
have a specific need for more intro material. We have had mention in
other articles since then, as the tool used to implement other apps.
But it seems that Doc Searls doesn't read them very carefully ;)

                   - Thomas

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Wed, 05 Jan 2000 17:30:15 +0000
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] InterBase interview on Linux Journal
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > They need to be educated about us.....
> > http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html
> 
> Yeah. I just sent a comment to them on this. I had talked to Marjorie
> Richards (from memory; I think that is the name) at LinuxWorld in
> August regarding Postgres articles, and she indicated that they might
> be interested in principle but that that they had recently done an
> introductory review article (nice and complimentary btw) and didn't
> have a specific need for more intro material. We have had mention in
> other articles since then, as the tool used to implement other apps.
> But it seems that Doc Searls doesn't read them very carefully ;)

Personally, I think that everyone should go to that article and put in a
comment to the effect that the Title of the article is inaccurate, and
insults the whole Open Source movement by claiming that a commercial
product, going open source, gets labelled as "The first major..."



Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:21:55 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] InterBase interview on Linux Journal
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > > They need to be educated about us.....
> > > http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/010.html
> > 
> > Yeah. I just sent a comment to them on this. I had talked to Marjorie
> > Richards (from memory; I think that is the name) at LinuxWorld in
> > August regarding Postgres articles, and she indicated that they might
> > be interested in principle but that that they had recently done an
> > introductory review article (nice and complimentary btw) and didn't
> > have a specific need for more intro material. We have had mention in
> > other articles since then, as the tool used to implement other apps.
> > But it seems that Doc Searls doesn't read them very carefully ;)
> 
> Personally, I think that everyone should go to that article and put in a
> comment to the effect that the Title of the article is inaccurate, and
> insults the whole Open Source movement by claiming that a commercial
> product, going open source, gets labelled as "The first major..."

Totally agree.  And as far as I am concerned, Interbase is not major at
all.

So we have a non-major database vendor claiming they are the first major
database vendor to go open-source.

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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:23:17 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] InterBase interview on Linux Journal