On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Not as often as you'd think, and it hasn't happened in the database > world yet, for some good reasons. This is all besides the point, > though; PostgreSQL has been accepting contributions from patent-holding > companies for over a decade, and that doesn't seem likely to stop any > time soon. Greenplum is not in any way special, especially since we > already accepted contributions from Greenplum Inc. back in 2005-2006.
The way that patents are yielded as weapons tends to result in technology companies seeking them out as a deterrent, if nothing else. I am not in the least bit surprised that an EMC spin-out has a patent portfolio. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
