| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, 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 21:09:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200504222109.j3ML9Bd01543@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
Well, ARC seems like a new database idea, at least in the past few
years. Are you saying ARC is either "ridiculous" or has prior art? I
know 2Q is similar, but not identical, and ARC does have some small
improvements over it.
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