Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Software Patents

> But, as a community it doesn't affect us either, since we don't include
> patent'd software,

How do you know?

> and if we are made aware of a patent related issue,
> we work to remove it

Yes.

>
> Whereas, from a "business community" standpoint, there it affects, but
> not from the "OSS PostgreSQL Community" side ...

Really?

Hypothectical:

Alvaro at his own volition implements algorithm foobar. Foobar is
patented but we don't. Alvaro didn't know. We find out 4 years later and
foobar has become the core of the PostgreSQL planner.

How does that not effect the community?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.


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