| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Software Patents |
| Date: | 2005-04-22 20:00:11 |
| Message-ID: | 426957CB.7020306@commandprompt.com |
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>>
>> Well that is not what I started this thread as. I started this thread
>> about Software Patents.
>
>
> But isnt' the big issue against software patents right now more a case
> of "a few bad eggs spoiling it for everyone" then anything? Are *all*
> software patents out there evil?
I have yet to see a software patent that is valid. That doesn't
mean that they are not out there but everyone that I have seen is
ridiculous. Prior art is rampant in the software industry.
We are not building an artificial heart here, we are building a database
and databases have been around for decades.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Again, as I've mentioned before, I know that there have been some
> "visible" cases where the patent applied for (and I believe approved)
> were for *very* generic concepts, which, IMHO, shouldn't be approved ...
>
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