Hannu Krosing wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:32, Justin Clift wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > This is Prof. Bayer's response to the question "is it alright to use > > UB-Tree's in Open Source projects?". > > Have you found out _what_ exaclty is patented ? > > Is it just his concrete implementation of "UB-Tree" or something > broader, like using one multi-dimensional index instead of multiple > one-dimensional ones ?
Is there any way of finding out instead of asking him directly? Maybe the patent places have online info? Professor Bayer isn't being overly informative. Anyone know? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > --------------------- > Hannu -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])