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Re: Lawsuit over the tzdata package

 

And now The Register has a bit more complete of a story on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/

Business doesn't innovate any more, only litigate it seems.

SMK

On 10/06/2011 09:47 PM, James Gifford wrote:
Andrew, it's probably something with patent infringement - that's
about the only thing people sue for in the software arena these days..
Cheers,
James Gifford



On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Andrew Pullins<android2772@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
why are they getting sued?

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:35 PM, James Gifford<james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Only though I have is "wow".



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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