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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Can we get patents?
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Msg-id 200505081105.08216.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Can we get patents?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: Can we get patents?  (David Walker <david@cosmicfires.com>)
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Alvaro,

> I'm wondering, could the PostgreSQL Foundation (or some other entity)
> get patents on some parts of Postgres?  Maybe ResourceOwners for
> example; or the newer parts of the optimizer.

That depends; is the SFLC offering to pay for the patent applications?  Last I 
checked, it was somewhere around $6000 per patent.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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