| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)www(dot)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: IBM releases 500 patents |
| Date: | 2005-01-11 16:34:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20050111163422.GA31080@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>
> >IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to
> >500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and
> >query optimizations, it may be worth a look.
> >
> >http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html
>
> Except in the event of a lawsuit.
And derived closed-source products like SRA's or CMD's Postgres
offerings would not be able to include whatever is covered by the patents.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"La rebeldía es la virtud original del hombre" (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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