Long Live Sustainability
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Argues PostgreSQL is community-owned and effectively irrevocably free, cites Oracle’s acquisition of SecondQuadrant/EDB as evidence that companies change but the codebase stays open, and notes one major release per year with supported for five years maintenance plus minor releases quarterly and ad‑hoc security patches. Describes core extensibility with extensions and forks, points to Stack Overflow most loved rankings, and recommends auditing stack dependencies, vendor lock‑in and license risk.
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