Re: Patent issues and 8.1

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patent issues and 8.1
Date: 2005-01-26 11:29:49
Message-ID: 1106738990.5587.38.camel@fuji.krosing.net
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Ühel kenal päeval (teisipäev, 25. jaanuar 2005, 21:10-0400), kirjutas
Marc G. Fournier:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > So if we have to address it we call it 8.0.7 or something. My point is
> > that we don't need to address it until we actually find out the patent
> > is being enforced against someone, and that possibility is quite unlikely.
>
> Ah, so you are advocating waiting *until* the problem exists, even *after*
> we know a) there may be a problem and b) we know that we can fix it ... ?

It may be my englisk skills, as I'm not a native speaker, but your
temporal logic escapes me ...

... waiting *until* the problem exists ... there *may be* a problem ...

so *bruce* advocates waiting *until* there *is* a problem, *we* know it
*may be* (*there* ?) and we know we *can* fix the problem that *may
be* ?

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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>

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