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[ale] M$SQL
- Subject: [ale] M$SQL
- From: jonathan at xcorps.net (Jonathan Rickman)
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:11:13 -0500 (EST)
On 21 Feb 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I was reading this earlier and nearly fell out of my chair laughing!!
>
> Now, how to turn this into a "switching to Open Source" campaign...
Better be careful. Those patents are pretty broad, potentially covering
features included in all RDBMS packages, MySQL and PostgreSQL included. As
much as I hate to admit it, MS may be fighting the good fight on this one.
Some of the software patents that have been issued are simply absurd.
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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net
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