| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Software Patents |
| Date: | 2005-04-23 02:00:38 |
| Message-ID: | 4269AC46.1000505@samurai.com |
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Chris Travers wrote:
> Would you be opposed to a simple writeup of why ARC was replaced with 2Q
> and why IBM's assurances of non-enforcement against open source products
> was insufficient?
I think a fair number of individuals were somewhat confused by how we
dealt with the ARC situation. Explaining what our reasoning was is
probably a good idea.
> Or in your view, should we be directing people to the mailing list
> archives for their primary source on the political positions we as a
> community have been forced to take for reasons beyond our immediate
> control?
I don't see how we've taken a "political position" due to ARC. We had a
problem that might have inhibited the use of PostgreSQL by some people,
so we worked around it.
-Neil
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