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Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many Palestinian homes did you demolish today, kikes?

    1. Re:Jews by tritonman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      not enough of them

    2. Re:Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Always half as many as what they should have.

    3. Re:Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How many Palestinian homes did you demolish today, kikes?

      You silly dune coon, the home of the so-called Palestinians is Jordan, not Israel. The Palestinians are just useful idiots for the Arabs. This is how sand niggers think: why fight your enemy yourself and put yourself in harm's way when you can get some third party really pissed off at your enemy instead? Funny how everyone hates Israel and no one puts the blame where it belongs, on the U.N. for recreating Israel in the 1940s.

  2. The simple answer. by professorguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know, I know. Don't feed the trolls. But I can't resist.

    Year round warm weather means hunting/gathering will completely fulfill a human tribe's needs.

    Harsh winters means technology must arise for food storage and shelter construction. Also, stored food is a barterable good allowing specialization of trades and further technological advancement.

    People who live in year round warmth need protection from the harsh sun and thus develop extra melanin for this. People who live with harsh winters need better UV reception on the skin (for vitamin D) and thus lose melanin.

    Pretty simple really. Now why you'd hate people who have extra melanin due to the location of their ancestors' tribes is really quite beyond me.

    I know I'm trying to reason with the unreasonable, but that's just my nature. Excuse me.

    1. Re:The simple answer. by Ian+Alexander · · 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.