Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > However, I am not sure getting a clarification from the author even
> > helps us legally. Also, why are we more critical of an Intel-provided
> > idea than any other idea we get from the community?
>
> Bitter experience with other companies.
The problem is we have lots of companies involved, and I bet some we
don't even know about (e.g. yahoo/gmail addresses), and with
contributors who don't know that their employment agreement says
anything they do while employed is company property. And we have Unisys
involved now too. How worrying is that? :-(
> > So unless we hear about a problem, I think we should use the code.
> It hasn't even been tested. One thing I'd want to know about is the
> performance effect on non-Intel machines.
Sure.
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