AIUI, Debian's commitment to free software is about choice. Therefore, non-free packages are simply made available in a different category outside the core distribution.
"Caring about 100% free software" is a misleading approximation of Debian's philosophy.
In a read-only Web application transactions are unnecessary and table-level locks are sufficient. But a multi-user read/write application would need row-level locking granularity or clearly it'd be unreliable.
Similarly, if you don't use rollback in your multi-user systems, your database will be worse than useless. Period.
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Didn't Xerox Parc investigate foot pedals for pointer control back in the 1970's?
AIUI, Debian's commitment to free software is about choice. Therefore, non-free packages are simply made available in a different category outside the core distribution.
"Caring about 100% free software" is a misleading approximation of Debian's philosophy.
~ Casper Boden-Cummins
Debian user since 0.93r6
In a read-only Web application transactions are unnecessary and table-level locks are sufficient. But a multi-user read/write application would need row-level locking granularity or clearly it'd be unreliable.
Similarly, if you don't use rollback in your multi-user systems, your database will be worse than useless. Period.