Ron wrote:
> On 05/02/2018 04:49 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > - the microsoft patented CSV would be required for implementation. it
> > handles special data with commas and double-quotes in them
> >
> >
> > If true this seems like a show-stopper to anything PostgreSQL would implement
>
> If MSFT really holds a patent on the CSV format, then Postgresql is already
> in a world of hurt.
Even if the CSV format was patented, don't patents only last 17 years?
Has anyone found the patent? When was it granted? I would guess in the 1980s.
And can anyone remember MS ever demanding a fee for using it?