> >so what?
> >
> >
> Iam reading an ariticle by Ann Harrison, where the subject is Firebird
> as a open source database to compete against the commercial database.
> But if the company can have the advantage on the firebird source code,
> how will the firebird leads against them?

It's free.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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