Re: [pgsql-www] Software Patents

Chris Travers wrote:
> Would you be opposed to a simple writeup of why ARC was replaced with 2Q
> and why IBM's assurances of non-enforcement against open source products
> was insufficient?

I think a fair number of individuals were somewhat confused by how we
dealt with the ARC situation. Explaining what our reasoning was is
probably a good idea.

> Or in your view, should we be directing people to the mailing list
> archives for their primary source on the political positions we as a
> community have been forced to take for reasons beyond our immediate
> control?

I don't see how we've taken a "political position" due to ARC. We had a
problem that might have inhibited the use of PostgreSQL by some people,
so we worked around it.

-Neil