Patents are as much designed to confuse and dissuade someone from using something as they are to patent something. Reading a patent is often harder than killing the nearest chicken, strewing it's entrails allover the yard, and then trying to make some sense of it.
Justin Clift wrote: >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 >> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
