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Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:45:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt)

Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:

> actually, there are two non-sequiturs in your reasoning here. there
> are businesses making money with free and/or open source software,
> so there is no a priori reason to assume oracle wouldn't be in
> business if all software were free.
>
> and even if that did happen, it still does not follow that no-one
> would be able to use a database as good as oracle's: there is no a
> priori reason to assume that in a world where all software is free,
> there couldn't be a high-quality database.

Agree, thanks for putting it so clearly! Who knows what would happen
if Oracle did not exist, maybe some of their developers, with a knack
for doing database applications, would work on free software...

/Mathias


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