Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: AW: More UB-Tree patent information]

Sorry all.
I replied to the wrong message.

Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
>
> I while ago I used xbase2pg and pg2xbase.
> You should be able to find it on the net.
>
> postgresql@fruru.com wrote:
> >
> > Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > >
> > > Have you found out _what_ exaclty is patented ?
> > >
> > > Is it just his concrete implementation of "UB-Tree" or something
> > > broader, like using one multi-dimensional index instead of multiple
> > > one-dimensional ones ?
> >
> > (I know it is OT, please reply in private, I can summarize any reactions
> > to the list ...)
> >
> > Patents are supposed to be only applicable to an industrial application
> > (with external side-effects).  So ideas in themselves are not patentable.
> >
> > Anyway, this is once more a good example of the danger of software patents
> > - you know what to reply when people say "software patents promote
> > innovation"
> >
> > IANAL, just my 0,02 Euro.
> >
> > see also : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/savingeurope.html (also
> > interesting for non-europeans, of course !)
> >
> > --
> > Tycho Fruru                     tycho.fruru@conostix.com
> > "Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future."
> >   - Niels Bohr
> >
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