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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jonathan Robie wrote: > Of course, we will have patents related to *efficient* implementation of > XQuery. The open cooperation is on the definition of the language itself, > and it must be possible to do a naive implementation without violating any > patents. Yargh. That just raised the evil specter of a (hypothetical) design that can be implemented with exponential run time for free and polynomial or better run time _only_ via patent encumbered algorithms. It could effectively be equivalent to patenting that part of the spec's requirements since it would bar any _deployable_ implementations that were not subject to the patent. -- Benjamin Franz You are in a maze of twisty IP laws that all look the same.
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