Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero

Noksagt writes "Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia's George Mason University develops Zotero, a free and open source plugin to Mozilla Firefox that researchers may use to manage citations. Thomson alleges that GMU's Center for History and New Media reverse engineered Endnote and that the beta version of Zotero can convert (in violation of the Endnote EULA) the proprietary style files that are used by Endnote to format citations into the open CSL file format."

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Re:Looks like a pretty weak case

[LaskoVortex]

Err... It's all well and good to rant about copyright but what the hell does copyright have to do with the story at hand?

If you actually read the post you are referring to, you would understand. You are probably struggling with reading comprehension so I'll futilely try to help you. See, in the post you are referring to, the poster brought up an example and used the word "copyright". This does not mean his rant was about copyright. He also used the word "perjury", and again, before you mistakenly ask "what does this have to do with perjury", bear in mind that he only used the word once as part of an example. I wish I had enough time and motivation to help you more with this concept, but just trust me when I advise you to try to ask less questions in the future so you don't appear so intellectually challenged.