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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?
Date
Msg-id 200503140258.j2E2wIB20736@candle.pha.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?
List pgsql-advocacy
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Chris,
>
> > For an organization like PGDG that _isn't_ politically activist in
> > nature (and that arguably isn't clearly defined for legal purposes) to
> > steer clear of political activism doesn't seem particularly
> > schizophrenic to me...
>
> Yes, but it would be hard to argue that anyone in the Postgres project favors
> software patents.

I am sure some of our new users _do_ favor software patents, perhaps
because they don't yet understand the problems they are causing.

Do we want the PostgreSQL web site to be educating them?  If we do, we
have to educate, not put a banner up there, and if we don't want to
educate, we shouldn't put it up there.

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073

pgsql-advocacy by date:

Previous
From: Tim Smith
Date:
Subject: What do Oracle, DB2, etc. actually *do*?
Next
From: David Fetter
Date:
Subject: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - March 13 2005 ==