A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark [LWN.net]

A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

Posted Sep 13, 2021 21:11 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

This is a career-ending grift for the guy who started it. It's going to be a huge waste of resources for everyone involved, and even if PostgreSQL lets him off as lightly as they say they will, nobody will trust him within a mile of other FOSS projects afterwards.

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A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

Posted Sep 13, 2021 22:57 UTC (Mon) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706) [Link]

Yeah, he's actually based his professional career around PostgreSQL (giving talks at conferences, etc.). The blog post by the PostgreSQL core team is actually the first search result if you type in his last name and PostgreSQL. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you...

And it's not like he didn't have a lot of chances to remedy this before it got to this point, but apparently he doubled and tripled down.

I wish the PostgreSQL team the best of luck in resolving this as painlessly and quickly as possible.