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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:16:56 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
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Please stop all this discussion of patents in this area.  Bringing up a 
US patents here makes US list members more likely to be treated as 
willful infringers of that patent: 
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/patent/advanced-patent/willful-patent-infringement/ 
if the PostgreSQL code duplicates that method one day.

The idea of surveying patents in some area so that their methods can be 
avoided in code you develop, that is a reasonable private stance to 
take.  But don't do that on the lists.

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Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.com


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