Hotel Being Sued for Using the Dewey Decimal System

cbull writes "Did you know the Dewey Decimal System isn't in the public domain? The rights are owned by the Online Computer Library Center. They are suing the Library Hotel in New York for trademark infringement. In addition, according to the article, libraries pay at least $500/year to use the system."

Comments

Fees for this?

[Martin Blank]

Next thing you know, someone's going to start charging for Linux.

Oh, wait...

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[Anonymous Coward]

Dewey Decimal for Law books. They're gonna need it.

What have

[Timesprout]

Hewey and Lewey got to say about this ?

hah

[yoshi1013]

"Excuse me, where can I find a book on astronomy?"

"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System????"

CONAN THE LIBRARIAN!

library hotel

[ibmman85]

i like the erotica package detailed on their site.. sounds pretty good.. i dont think my girlfriend's parents would too much approve of us utilizing such facilities though and it probably costs more than the $2 that belongs to me. college. blah.

Re:How is this NOT public domain?

[sgb235]

The rights to it were bought by SCO.

Re:This could be good

[RAMMS EIN]

``But does it belong under "math", "computer science", or "computer languages -> C"? (Dewey seperates Computing out into a seperate category, rather than placing it under math).

The answer, of course, is all three.''

ln /math/BookTitle /cs

What? Your library does not support links? Don't tell me they use Windows... How do you mean ``The Real World doesn't support hard links''? What kind of operating system is that???