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Source Code Dispute in Boston's Big Dig
JoshuaDFranklin writes "Boston's 'Big Dig' is famously long-running and over budget as noted before on Slashdot. But now Computerworld is reporting that a Software Ownership Battle Adds $10M to Cost of 'Big Dig'. The legal dispute was over whether Massachusetts had the right to share Transdyn source code with Honeywell, causing $2.72 million in damages and $7.2 million in costs of a four-month delay in the project."
F1ST PROST!
In Soviet Russia, the big dig is done!
Hey when this gets done who wants to help me blow out the floor under the vault of one of the big banks this passes under?
+5 Republican!
You know what would be funny?
If place names, like every fucking thing else in the USA, were considered protected IP.
'Cause then that way the holders of the rights to place names -- which, naturally, would be the people who first used that name to describe their settlement -- would be coining it in! The people of Boston, Lincs {which was there before Columbus even set sail} would be able to claim royalties from Boston, Massachusetts. The people of Worcester would be able to claim royalties off Worcester, Massachusetts. And hey, maybe the people of York might even get something out of New York -- although they might have to share some of the backdated payments with Amsterdam.
There are undoubtedly many, many more examples of place name theft that need to be corrected, but these are the only ones I can think of now.
It was probably worth it, to see the Sox win the world series.