Re: SEPostgres - on track for 8.4?

On Thursday 23 October 2008 13:17:43 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert,
>
> > Someone mentioned to me that IBM and Oracle have several patents in this
> > area, is anyone looking into that angle?
>
> That would be an *extremely* bad idea.  In patentland, ignorance is
> actually a defense.
>
> So, if anyone *does* know about patents in this area, please keep that
> knowledge to yourself.
>

I doubt it would be much of a defense given what you just posted...

personally if someone does know that there is a patent, i'd rather we heard
about it before we put the code in than after.

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL