Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

[Anthony Lucas]

But, why on earth would this go into a "standard perl distribution"? It doesn't sound very standard OR widely distributable.

You can't have it both ways...
No one is trying to be unwelcoming, It's just that we're getting 2 conflicting messages here.


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From: Greg McCarroll <greg at mccarroll.org.uk>
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:00:45 
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Subject: Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module


On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:40, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:

> 
> On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Not to be snarky but the answer here seems to be "yes, and what's your point?"
> 
> Companies that make you buy their software (limited, free, 
> development version notwithstanding, limiting the *client*
> systems you use out of what, fear that you might use their
> software more widely?
> 

But do consider, loss of brand value/reputation as they can't properly test the client on every platform and one of their brand components is stability/reliability?

And I suspect most people deploying Sybase are going to tailor the OS/distro around it.

G.