Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?
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Msg-id 200503110826.49207.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Peter, Jean-Paul,

> I wonder how the FSF and EFF can get away with it then.

Well, I haven't checked on the FSF, but the EFF is *not* a charitable
organization for this reason.

> Placing a project as Open Source, IMHO, is already a political act.

Yep.    But it doesn't matter what you or I think is Political; it matters
what the US Gov't thinks is political.   At least, as far as the 501(c)3
goes.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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