Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed 60
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."
Hurrah! (Score:5, Informative)
And rightly so. I doubt they actually made any money from the plug in, so $10m would have utterly crippled both the university and the students therein.
Re:Hurrah! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hurrah! (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, given the state of the economy, the large-endowment schools are hurting the most, because suddenly their primary source of income is in fact bleeding money.
Works fine for me (Score:2, Informative)
I'm running Zotero 2.0b5 in Firefox 3.0.10 right now. What problems are you having?
Re:Hurrah! (Score:5, Informative)
Also the AC above was right:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/3749 [rankingsandreviews.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University [wikipedia.org]
GMU's endowment is only $54,955,028. Wikipedia had an extra 1 on the front for some reason (I fixed it.)
At the same time, I got the corrected figure from the reference cited on Wikipedia, so it doesn't really discredit wikipedia, so much as prove you need to follow your sources, whatever you're reading.
http://eagle.gmu.edu/gazette/articles/9750 [gmu.edu]
This article also puts the endowment as just reaching 50 million a few years ago.
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Informative)
Both Zotero 1.0.10 and 2.0b5 have install.rdf manifests declaring compatibility up to Firefox 3.5. If you're getting that message, there's a problem with your Firefox profile.
Re:Hurrah! (Score:4, Informative)
It's just sad. No one knows what a primary source is anymore.
Here is a good citation [gmu.edu].
Re:The simple answer. (Score:2, Informative)
Thomson Reuters is not just this guy (Score:1, Informative)
Thomson Reuters [wikipedia.org] is multi-million dollar company.