| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Patent issues and 8.1 |
| Date: | 2005-01-28 01:49:55 |
| Message-ID: | 200501272049.55656.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 20:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Ordinarily I would agree with you, but what happens to someone who is
> >> still running 8.0.* when IBM's patent gets issued?
> >
> > This is a straw-man, since nothing stops people from running 8.0.0
> > even if the replacement come in 8.0.1
>
> I don't think so. It's not our responsibility if someone doesn't take
> advantage of an available update. But it is our responsibility if no
> update is available.
>
The straw-man is that this needs to happen in 8.0.x rather than 8.1, IMHO.
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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