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 they

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-09 Thread Russ Allbery
unruh writes: > On 2011-10-07, Russ Allbery 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 US >> government server, no less), so

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-09 Thread unruh
On 2011-10-07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney 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

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney 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 certainly), so there's re

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Weaver 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-databas

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Weaver 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 It's already bac

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