[Xastir] station database?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

MySQL 4 ha spatial capability.  From my perspective, it's now a matter 
of personal choice...

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Xastir doesn't at present create & add to a station
>>database of traffic heard, does it?  That would be a
>>really neat feature.  A mysql database perhaps.
>>(I'm learning php & mysql so i mention mysql.)  I
>>mean, a 'permanent' database that doesn't go away
>>when you shut down the program.
> 
> 
> Yea, we're going to head that way, but look at postgreSQL instead of
> mysql.  Spatially-enabled features.
> 
> 
> 
>>What prompts this is looking at www.findu.com and
>>feeling disappointed that k4hg (Steve Dimse) seems to
>>liken Open Source software to something socialistic.
>>His language suggests that.  I always thought of Linux
>>being a product of a "rational anarchy" kind of
>>philosophy, not socialism.
>>
>>His point being that he won't release the source code
>>to all his good work.  Oh well.
> 
> 
> You've got the wrong idea about Steve.  He openly uses open-source
> tools.  He's not releasing the code to findu for other reasons.

He's hopes of getting paid for it.  More power to him...

gerry
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