Re: IBM releases 500 patents

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> 
> >IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 
> >500 patents.  In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and 
> >query optimizations, it may be worth a look.
> >
> >http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html
>
> Except in the event of a lawsuit.

And derived closed-source products like SRA's or CMD's Postgres
offerings would not be able to include whatever is covered by the patents.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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