We can modify the code slightly to hopefully avoid the patent. With the US granting patents on even obvious ideas, I would think that most large software projects, including commercial ones, already have tons of patent violations in their code. Does anyone think otherwise?
However, I will grant that ARC is not an obvious idea.
Speaking from a commercial perspective, if the community has known patent violating code within its source tree, the community needs to remove and or modify as to not violate that patent before any continued release.
The last thing I am sure that:
RedHat Pervasive SRA Fufitsu PgSQL, Inc. and of course Command Prompt
want is a call from IBM saying... hey we aren't going to go after the community but you need to pay up.
The patent risk is just entirely too great and it can greatly hurt the community as a whole.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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