Re: ARC patent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ARC patent
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Msg-id 200501172107.j0HL7a813056@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: ARC patent  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: ARC patent  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > ARC wasn't in the 500 patents released to open source.
> 
> ... because it isn't a patent, yet.

Yea, but IBM has thousands of patents.  The odds that this particular
patent would have been in the 500 if it was granted is unlikely, no?

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