[Taxacom] this is going to be space worth watching...

[Jim Croft]

It is probably a shame the case was dismissed.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/thomson-reuters-suit-against-zotero-software-dismissed.ars

Pronouncements on what you can and can't do with 'proprietary formats'
might have been quite interesting...

jim

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:58 PM, tyler<tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Jim Croft writes:
>  > Thanks Tyler - it takes time for news, even good, to reach the
>  > antipodes - trade winds and all that... :)
>  >
>  > was there an aftermath, or did it just go away?
>
> I don't know - your message was what prompted me to go looking. I
> hadn't seen Zotero before, but it looks amazing! I've been using LaTeX
> and bibtex for a few years, but this might make it worth switching to
> OpenOffice, Firefox and Zotero instead. The main downside I can see is
> that it looks like you have to use a mouse to use the interface, which
> is hard on my arthritic hands.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tyler
>
>
>  >
>  > jim
>  >
>  > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM, tyler<tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>  > > Jim Croft writes:
>  > >  > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7214/full/455708a.html
>  > >
>  > > That link is 9 months old. The suit has already been dismissed,
>  > > although an appeal is still possible:
>  > >
>  > > http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/thomson-reuters-suit-against-zotero-software-dismissed.ars
>  > >
>  > > In any case, this is a pretty compelling reason not to use EndNote
>  > > anymore!
>  > >
>  > > Cheers,
>  > >
>  > > Tyler
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Who is your computer working for?
>  > >
>  > > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
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>  >
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>
> --
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> which is the exact opposite.           --Bertrand Russell
>



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... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe