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The European Commission's open source software poolThe European Commission's open source software poolPosted Jul 11, 2002 5:40 UTC (Thu) by grahammm (guest, #773)Parent article: The European Commission's open source software pool So POSS would have to distribute the source code along with the binaries of GPL'd programs otherwise ANY third party (eg an EU citizen) could demand a copy of the source from them.
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The European Commission's open source software pool Posted Jul 11, 2002 7:13 UTC (Thu) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link] What amazes me is that they've spent all the time to produce such a report and generally well-intended too, but still have proposed the substandard pseudo-SQL quasi-DBMS MySQL, and that with fully SQL, very capable DBMS PostgreSQL being available too.Both are free software, but only PostgreSQL is a proper DBMS, with full support for SQL data types, atomic, ACID transactions, referential integrity and the like. And any database software development without transactions and referential integrity is bound to be much more complex and error-prone than it should be.
The European Commission's open source software pool Posted Jul 11, 2002 18:32 UTC (Thu) by KeineHeimat (guest, #2154) [Link] That was quite exactly the comment I wanted to write ;-)
The European Commission's open source software pool Posted Jul 12, 2002 19:51 UTC (Fri) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link] > That was quite exactly the comment I wanted to write ;-) Thanks!
The European Commission's open source software pool Posted Jul 13, 2002 8:19 UTC (Sat) by seanpor (guest, #2564) [Link] Hang on... they're only specifying the host for the _Portal_ for the pooled software... they're _Not_ saying that that MySQL is the only database to be used in government.
The European Commission's open source software pool Posted Aug 12, 2003 1:50 UTC (Tue) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link] > they're only specifying the host for the _Portal_ for the pooled software Bad enough. MySQL is the cause of quite some slashdottings, even /. itself was a victim. Footnotes too.
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