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Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero

Posted by timothy on from the gmu-also-home-of-econtalk dept.

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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  1. Re:Same old story by Sancho · · Score: 4, Funny

    EndNote does one thing [citation management] well.

    [citation needed]

  2. fantastic news by jacquesm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really, what better way to make end users aware of the risks involved when they're using proprietary file formats?

    Sue your own customers because they try to break the lock in? Great plan!

    I'm sure that 'Thomas Reuters' will see their business go through the roof after this :)

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  3. Does not bode well for Reuters by l00sr · · Score: 2, Funny

    So apparently, Reuters recently got bought out by Thomson. Let's hope they don't start suing Wikinews...

  4. Re:"But it's just my opinion, I could be wrong" by pembo13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This (above) is the reference example to be used for postings.

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  5. Subject by Legion303 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not that I'll ever be likely to use this extension, but: *Archived*!