| 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 17:01:10 |
| Message-ID: | 42692DD6.6030400@commandprompt.com |
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> But, as a community it doesn't affect us either, since we don't include
> patent'd software,
How do you know?
> and if we are made aware of a patent related issue,
> we work to remove it
Yes.
>
> Whereas, from a "business community" standpoint, there it affects, but
> not from the "OSS PostgreSQL Community" side ...
Really?
Hypothectical:
Alvaro at his own volition implements algorithm foobar. Foobar is
patented but we don't. Alvaro didn't know. We find out 4 years later and
foobar has become the core of the PostgreSQL planner.
How does that not effect the community?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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