Re: ARC patent

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:53:14 +0100
"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> wrote:
> An idea around this would be to plan never to release 8.1. Instead,
> direct HEAD towards 8.2 with a normal dev cycle (or rather, let's aim
> for a short one, but in reality short may not be all that short..).
> Then the eventual ARC replacment (assuming there is one) gets
> backpatched to the 8.1 branch which is basically only contains all
> patches from 8.0.x plus the ARC stuff.

Personally I prefer the 8.0.1 route for two reasons.

1. We don't know when (or if) the patent will be granted.  8.0.1 fits in
no matter what and it doesn't sound like we are going backwards.

2. From a marketing standpoint it is easier to sell our bosses/clients
that 8.0.1 is exactly the same as they have running and tested but
without a legal constraint than 8.1 which sounds more like a new
version.

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