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There are times when I think the old time Mac community is utterly clueless on the benefits and opportunities of free software. While there are a lot Mac users in the free software community these days, it seems most of them migrated over from Linux.

Witness a thread at Macintouch on database solutions for a guy interested in doing scientific development. Let’s see: out of roughly 25 recommendations, I count three mentions of MySQL or PostgreSQL. Everything else is one commercial products or another.

I don’t get it.

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