> Stupid question here ... if Oracle came at us with "the Software Patent > crap", is there any "reasonable time" provided to remove it? We've > already shown in the past that that isn't a big hurdle, with the ARC > stuff, so am just curiuos as to how big a thing the Patent stuff is, or > does even that fall under 'temporary setback / inconvience'? That may depend on what's been patented. In my opinions (and more importantly in the eyes of more than a few intellectual property attorneys) the patent office has granted some very dubious software patents, and a deep pockets patent holder would probably have the upper hand wielding them. -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org