Re: Patent issues and 8.1

On Thursday 27 January 2005 20:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:27, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Ordinarily I would agree with you, but what happens to someone who is
> >> still running 8.0.* when IBM's patent gets issued?
> >
> > This is a straw-man, since nothing stops people from running 8.0.0
> > even if the replacement come in 8.0.1
>
> I don't think so.  It's not our responsibility if someone doesn't take
> advantage of an available update.  But it is our responsibility if no
> update is available.
>

The straw-man is that this needs to happen in 8.0.x rather than 8.1, IMHO.  

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Robert Treat
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