Re: ARC patent

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)www(dot)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ismail Teppeev <iteppeev(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ARC patent
Date: 2005-01-17 23:54:03
Message-ID: 1106006043.14384.221.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:30 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:02 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>IBM can NEVER sue customers for using infringing
> >>>code before first informing them of infringement and
> >>>giving reasonable time to upgrade to uninfringing
> >>>version.
> >>>
> >>I can see it now:
> >>
> >>We won't sue you (customer) but you have to upgrade
> >>to DB2 ;)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This is panic and is wrong-headed. They haven't even sent a letter
> >yet...
> >
> Simon please note that it was a joke :) Thus the ;).

Sue me. :-)

But read the rest of my posting first.

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Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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