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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: 14 Feb 2025 20:17:55 GMT
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:43:37 +0100, D wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:10:25 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> There are good examples I think we could learn from. SQlite and
>>> Postgres come to mind as software projects that have been quite solid.
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/
>> microsoft_builds_open_source_document/
>>
>> Strange bedfellows.
>>
>>
> Strange. I don't like it! Will their tentacles destroy the project?

I don't think so although their choice of Postgres rather than SQL Server 
is interesting. The target seems to be MongoDB. If you want to get 
paranoid MongoDB is funded in part by In-Q-Tel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel