EFF Wins Protection For Time Zone Database 71
First time accepted submitter TempestRose writes "The trials and tribulations of the time zone database sued by an astrology software company are finally over. From the article: 'The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a 'covenant not to sue' going forward, which will help protect the database from future baseless legal actions and disruptions.'"
Astrolabe Needs ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:whooo (Score:5, Funny)
they probably read in the stars they weren't going to win :)
Strange.. (Score:5, Funny)
that they didn't read this in their horoscope..
You know of course... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to be the first to say (Score:5, Funny)
Sacrifice Astrolabe: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Re:You know of course... (Score:5, Funny)
...that Astrolabe could not claim to hold copyright on facts such as when the sun rises. What TFA fails to state is that this is because Apples owns the patent on it.
I thought Oracle owned all the Sun patents.
There goes the incentive (Score:5, Funny)
If government doesn't grant a monopoly on the facts of timezones, then what incentive do astrologers have to allow timezones to exist? EFF, you people are ruining the progress of the sciences and useful arts!