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PS - I meant the EFF  not the FFE (used to work for a group called the Foundation for Evangelism ... aka FFE  - funny how the fingers have memory years later) 


On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Hop Off A Cloud wrote:

> I think the lawsuit is a bunch of bull crap - AND does not merit its weight in the paper used to file.
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> The supreme court already ruled in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural  that it is actually illegal to "copyright" facts and data. 
> Astrolab in this case is simply putting money behind making a point that they are frustrated because it took them a large amount of time and effort (perhaps) to get the information - HOWEVER the database itself - i think since it is simply factual data - may not hold up to its copyright. 
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> My larger concern however is - What happens if this is successful - PHP ships with the Olsen database after all. 
> My question is - Where is the likes of  RedHat and all these other groups including Canonical and Novell -  Where is the FFE - why are they not standing up for what obviously will be a huge blow to the open source community.   Worse yet - if the court finds that the lawsuit has merit -   what happens to everything that has been coded to utilize the database ? 
> Imagine if non of us have indemnification and since we have used the Olsen database are found guilty by association. 
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> All I know is - I think it is time to call for a Tango Down moment against Astrolabs -   funny but never thought I would find myself voicing such a statement... 
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> On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:35 PM, James Gifford wrote:
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>> Only though I have is "wow".
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>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat
>> <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I caught wind of this today via Identica:
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133
>>> 
>>> The discussion thread on Identica is here:
>>> http://identi.ca/conversation/84414961
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts out there?
>>> 
>>> SMK
>>> 
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