[Glastonbury] KDE 3.2 and rekall (the database frontend, discussedlast week)

Andrew M.A. Cater amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 5 06:47:17 GMT 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:26:00AM -0000, Sean Miller wrote:
>  > yes i agree rekall is the answer for teaching databases at gcse level on 
> > linux platform
> 
> According to their website Rekall costs $70 ?
> 
> http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/
> 
> Is that correct? Or is this a different rekall ?
> 
I think this is a case where the product per se is GPL - but you
are paying media costs/packaging.  This started off as a fully 
commercial product IIRC - but no one bought it at the price.  The .rpms
(and support) still cost - the source is available free (but is 
difficult to compile??)

Andy



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