freetds library -- any legal issues?

Mon Sep 19 18:48:21 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:46 -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On top of that, it is patented by Microsoft (5,974,416).
> 
> How the heck can MS hold a patent for something they bought from
> Sybase?
> 
> Sounds bogus to me...

There are 4 versions of TDS: 4.2, 5.0, 7.0, and 8.0. MS bought TDS 4.2
from Sybase. Only Sybase uses 5.0, and only MS uses 7.0 and 8.0.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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