Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Software Patents

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>> Uhmmm software patents are about as political as you can get ;).
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> Only if they affect you, and they don't affect us, since we strive to be
> patent free, as seen by how quickly we removed the ARC stuff ...

World hunger is only poltical if it affects you. It doesn't affect us.

We don't live in a closet.

> *And* ... unless I'm mistaken, this whole 'anti-patent' stuff will never
> get rid of the existing patent system in the US, or any other country,
> will it?

O.k. first, we are talking about SOFTWARE PATENTS. Not patents in
general. It could very well change it.

The US Patriot act is getting ready to get overhauled exactly because
of ALL the noise that has been made about it.

Do I think our stance will change the patent system? I have no idea.
Does that mean it won't? Does that mean that our stance won't inspire
others and thus create a force that could?

> Basically, if we're going to be *anti-patent*, we need to know the why

anti-software-patent

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

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