Re: [HACKERS] Danish database patent

2000-11-11 Thread Don Baccus
At 06:35 PM 11/11/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote: >I took only a brief look at them, so i may be in a state of >misunderstanding :) > >As I understand it, the patent is about generating/composing queries >_before_ >submitting them to backend, not about query processing in the backend. Yes, it's

Re: [HACKERS] Danish database patent

2000-11-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
Hans Schou wrote: > > Hi > > I hope this is the right list to write to. > > A danish company just got a patent which we at SSLUG www.sslug.dk do not > think is a new invention. > > I want to get in contact with somebody who can confirm that this patent is > not new and has been in PostgreSQL b

[HACKERS] Danish database patent

2000-11-11 Thread Hans Schou
Hi I hope this is the right list to write to. A danish company just got a patent which we at SSLUG www.sslug.dk do not think is a new invention. I want to get in contact with somebody who can confirm that this patent is not new and has been in PostgreSQL before the patent was taken. If we can