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Re:Open sourcing a Contracted project: I toggled the “public... by moron4hire on Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:21AM (#11744284)
Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.
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Re:Open sourcing a Contracted project: I toggled the “public... by forgotpwtomain on Sunday May 22, 2016 @12:13AM (#11747351)
Your post explicitly states:

> Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.

The comments in response to my post have been about the author's of said software publishing blogs - are you really equating 1 author publishing a blog with the 'marketing and sales' used to sell proprietary software (as in dedicated sales team, dedicated marketing teams, SEO, dedicated social media/pr employees)?

> Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.

Saying that Postgres is 'very heavily marketed' when drawing a comparison to the marketing proprietary software receives isn't just misleading, it's false.

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