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Subject: Re: Commercial Programs & Linux ??

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:26:33 02/17/01

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On February 16, 2001 at 20:37:15, James Swafford wrote:

>[...]

>MySQL is free, and unless you're running a site like Internet
>Movie DB or amazon, it does just fine.

Wrong. MySQL lacks the transactions, thus it's in the class of MS Access or
FoxPro, but not SQL Server or "real" (not personal) Oracle. That means that you
cannot use it for the "real" tasks.

>I think Dr. Hyatt is a classis example of somebody doing cutting
>edge work and publishing it OSS - for free.  You just ain't gonna
>make money selling computer chess programs to the linux community.
>I suppose you could make a few bucks doing a port, but I wouldn't
>count on paying the rent with it.

Crafty is not the "open source" software in the GNU or Linux sense.

Eugene



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