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F/OSS Flat-File Database?

Posted by kdawson on from the no-relation dept.

Leemeng writes "I'm looking for a simple, free, and F/OSS flat-file database program. I'm storing info about Wi-Fi access points that I come across, maybe 8-9 fields per entry. I've outgrown Notepad. This info is for my own reference only; it is not going on a Web server. Googling was unhelpful, with results skewed towards SQL, Access (MS), and Oracle, all of which would be overkill for my purposes. My criteria are: it must be simple, F/OSS, must work in Windows Vista, preferably use a portable format, must not be an online app, and must not require Java. Does such a beast exist?"

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  1. Re:Python? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Care to tell me exactly what the user of GPL software is not free to do?

    Use it in any project that isn't GPL'd. Because all other free software licenses are, after all, stealing.

  2. Re:Python? by cbreaker · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can try to weasel out of your comment all you want, but it was obviously meant to be a troll. There was no hidden meaning - it was just you trolling.

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  3. Re:Python? by stephanruby · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to use it in my gigabyte of source code commercial app, which, prior to such inclusion, is legally mine to distribute, which is a use I make of this object, that is, my application. [...] To be blunt, the word "use", (as well as all of its natural permutations) which you depend upon so heavily in your flawed analysis, doesn't have the limited meaning you wish it had -- nor has it ever, or will it ever, have such a limited meaning.

    What part of "This info is for my own reference only; it is not going on a Web server." did you not understand? Did you already forget the original context of this discussion, or are you hoping that we accept your standard kindergarten defense? "As a five-year old, my ego is so fragile -- I reserve the right to ignore the context of any previous discussion of any word I want -- even if this discussion was just a second ago -- and even if I was the one who partook in that discussion. From now on, any discussion I participate in won't move forward, any context will have to be repeated explicitly every time, and I shall interpret every little detail in the most literal annoying way that only a five-year old can."?

    By the way, those were rhetorical questions, there is no need to answer them.