On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Not as often as you'd think, and it hasn't happened in the database
> world yet, for some good reasons. This is all besides the point,
> though; PostgreSQL has been accepting contributions from patent-holding
> companies for over a decade, and that doesn't seem likely to stop any
> time soon. Greenplum is not in any way special, especially since we
> already accepted contributions from Greenplum Inc. back in 2005-2006.

The way that patents are yielded as weapons tends to result in
technology companies seeking them out as a deterrent, if nothing else.
I am not in the least bit surprised that an EMC spin-out has a patent
portfolio.

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Peter Geoghegan