Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Software Patents

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >>Secondly I would say that an ARC patent is ridiculous based on the above
> >>experience.
> >
> >
> > ARC is 2Q with the ability to dynamically resize the four cache pools.
>
> So ARC is 2Q++. My point exactly :)

So you are saying "++" isn't patentable?  I don't understand that.

You are saying that there are no completely new ideas in databases, and
that marginal improvements are not patentable?

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