However, I don't want to be beholden to IBM indefinitely --- in five years their corporate strategy might change. I think that a reasonable response to this is to plan to get rid of ARC, or at least modify the code enough to avoid the patent, in time for 8.1. (It's entirely likely that that will happen before the patent issues, anyway.)
regards, tom lane
IBM makes 20% of their money from licensing patents.
That alone makes this whole conversation scare the hell out of me.
We should be as proactive as possible with this and remove the code (or modify as required).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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