Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 5, 2009 @03:20AM from the ending-of-note dept.

peretzpup writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Thomson Reuters's lawsuit against George Mason University has been dismissed. Last fall the news organization had sued GMU's Center for History and New Media over supposed violations of the EndNote licensing agreement by the Zotero project, hosted at the university. Zotero, a Firefox plug-in designed to help scholars store and organize their online research, has seen millions of downloads. Zotero project co-director Sean Takats's announcement is pretty heartwarming. No comment as yet from Thomson Reuters."

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Re:The simple answer. by Ian+Alexander · 2009-06-05 04:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Storing food is no great feat.

What really facilitates technological advancement is agriculture, and for agriculture you need to look to warmth. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and the like are not known for their harsh winters yet where did our civilization come from?

For thousands of years civilization is what happened in the hot places of the world. Babylon, Israel, the Assyrian Empire, the Persian Empire, Uruk, the list goes on.