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Somebody's suing the maintainer of the timezone database? http://ur1.ca/5biqr
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@windigo Huh! Whats to sue? Its public knowledge! (unless he was scraping the info from someone else.)
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@nybill Exactly - it seems like quite the frivolous lawsuit, but there hasn't been much disclosed yet. Something to watch...
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@windigo The only thing I can think of is information was being scraped from another service maintaining it. I recall that being P1/2
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Someone has a patent on time, apparently. Wish I would have thought of that one.
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@x1101 Well, it's being filed in MA - so maybe we could utilize the "fund" on our way to NELF? :D
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Ahem! I have patented wishes. That's $3 you owe me, sunshine!
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@johnnynull @x1101 If this lawsuit turns out to be as ridiculous as it seems, I'd be down. :P
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@windigo ...in a satirical, not providing any fodder to an over-litigious nutball kinda way.
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@davidmarsden ahem^2! I own the patent on owning - i'll take that $3 thank you very much @gomerx
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I wish I had $3 to send you. Wait. I gues it's $6 now.
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About time someone's suing them! It lists my timezone as "Europe/Helsinki", and thus they force all us to think of our dismal capital. =) =)
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@wwwwolf I'd accuse you of being the plaintiff, but I'm fairly sure Helsinki isn't in Massachusetts, and Massachusetts isn't in Euroupe. :D
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This got silly quickly :-) @gomerx
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@windigo anything for a buck ...
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@johnnynull Just a month i'll be more open due to his car
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@madhacker Yeah - but it's unfortunate that this guy is getting hassled for doing such an obviously selfless act.
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I guess that's what we're here for. :)
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@davidmarsden Oh, "silly". Prepare to hear from my lawyers!
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@johnnynull "I'm way better out of the 5 stations i have to go down well
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@windigo it is unfortunate, suing for copyright, who exactly does this information hurt by being in the public domain anyway.
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@windigo, Nipeng found some more detailed info: http://ur1.ca/5boqe
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@nybill Thanks for the info; sounds like a crappy situation. Hope these guys get some help - we have FLOSS lawyers, too. Prime the cannons!
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@windigo I fear this might start happening more and more. As Linux starts to generate $ lawyers will start crawling out of the woodwork. :/
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