Archive 7. October 2011

Time zones: tz database shut down due to lawsuit. This is probably one of the extra-absurd cases of patent extortion. Time zones are hardly copyrighted by this silly company, and the banal compilation of facts that do not belong to you really does not have a level of creativity that needs to be greatly protected. Patent trolls are annoying.

oryx-editor - Web-based Graphical Business Process Editor. Just looked this up for a colleague and it looks quite interesting - I should take a closer look at what it actually does. This could be quite exciting for some work projects.