[ale] M$SQL

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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:11:13AM -0500, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> 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.
Amen to that!

> --
> Jonathan Rickman
> X Corps Security
> http://www.xcorps.net

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