Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation

Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by tomp on Thursday October 06, 2011 @04:48PM (#3081583)

Mafia and drug cartels create jobs as well. That doesn't mean they are good for the society, and that the people employed by them could not produce more value doing something else.

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Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by jbooth on Thursday October 06, 2011 @04:51PM (#3081601)

Guess I needed the snark tag. Thought the unix and java line would be a dead giveaway.

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Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by aw3c2 on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:15PM (#3081692)

I missed it too and so I downvoted your post.

HN being a site full of entrepeneurs I often see concepts about society and rights where I feel sick in my stomach, so your post did not seem very unusual to me.

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Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by wladimir on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:30AM (#3083838)

Yes, I'm sorry I downvoted you too before I realized you were making a joke (no way to undo it, though I upvoted this post to make up for it). I guess it wasn't over-the-top enough, there are people that would mean that seriously, and defend copyright and patent trolls.

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Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by lanstein on Thursday October 06, 2011 @04:56PM (#3081621)

You can't be serious.

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Re:Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litig... by tomp on Saturday October 08, 2011 @03:34PM (#3088723)

I wasn't :)

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