Thursday, June 12, 2008

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL derivatives

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > And in the end, I don't see any reason for us to *turn down* sponsorship
> >
> > I do. Non-profit organisations must be run "without fear or favour" and
> > that includes not accepting gifts of any kind, though anonymous
> > donations are always acceptable.
> >
> > If we don't do this, then people may get the impression that certain
> > companies dominate and that can easily lead to non-contribution. So
> > IMHO, being even handed is critically important to our future.
>
> I am not sure how anonymous-only contributions are supposed to work.
> EnterpriseDB employs me, but no one is supposed to know that?
> EnterpriseDB sponsors a dinner at PGCon but the sponsor is a secret?

You just have the table cloth black and all the cups red. The point will
get across :P

Joshua D. Drake


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