Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-10 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Just ignore them. Hot air. Microsoft et al. release stolen work and privatizes gov. projects. Can they prosecute you? I doubt it. They probably owe you. If it works don't fix it, ignore mere talk about wishes of delay of linux. If anything they're hoping you'll make new work because

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-09 Thread unruh
On 2011-10-07, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: That will be good, but we still need to make a lot of noise about this. It's ludicrous that any idiot with a lawyer can bring down a resource like the site hosting Olsen timezone data, even

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-09 Thread Russ Allbery
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca writes: On 2011-10-07, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: All you're going to accomplish at this point by making a lot of noise is to make life even more difficult for ado, so please don't. Please remember that he was using a server at his job for this (a

Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist? http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html Regards, Weaver. -- In a world without

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist? http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Weaver wea...@riseup.net writes: This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist?

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: That will be good, but we still need to make a lot of noise about this. It's ludicrous that any idiot with a lawyer can bring down a resource like the site hosting Olsen timezone data, even temporarily. ado took the site down voluntarily (almost