| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: SEPostgres - on track for 8.4? |
| Date: | 2008-10-23 21:32:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200810231732.06912.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Thursday 23 October 2008 16:03:09 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert,
>
> > personally if someone does know that there is a patent, i'd rather we
> > heard about it before we put the code in than after.
>
> 90% of granted patents are invalid. And *nobody* on our mailing lists is
> capable of judging validity *or* infringement.
>
100% of "granted" patents are valid until proven otherwise.
> So you, Robert, are basically encouraging people to troll our lists with
> spurious patent issues. Please stop it, right now.
>
I think that is probably better than encouraging people to add knowlingly
infringing code into our source tree, which is what you, Josh, are basically
doing.
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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