"Jonah H. Harris" <jharris@tvi.edu> writes:
> I have a couple aquaintances at IBM that I can try to contact about it.
> Rather than assume what IBM will do, why not just ask them? If they
> don't respond, they don't respond. If they do respond, it's better than
> us guessing.
People seem to be assuming that asking IBM is a zero-risk thing. It's not.
If they are forced to deal with the issue, they might well feel that
they have to take action that we'd not like; whereas as long as it's not
officially in front of them, they can pretend to ignore us.
This is not a whole lot different from our situation today: now that the
issue of the pending patent is officially in front of us, we have to
deal with it.
regards, tom lane
