Sorry for the late reply, I was offline. I read all replies, and I think this is an interesting case. I heard about it some time ago about robopark (the web site looks like an ode to intellectual property more than anything else).
Quoting http://www.calccit.org/itsdecision/serv_and_tech/Parking_Systems_Technologies/parking_systems_tech_report.htm In August 2006 the robotic parking garage encountered a problem. It [...] a contractual disagreement between Robotic Parking (the owners of the software running the garage) and the City of New Jersey who own and operate the garage but refused to pay what they saw as an exorbitant rise in software licence and maintenance fees [...]. The City was not allowed to operate the garage without a software license and the result was a court case which lasted two weeks and trapped residents cars in the parking garage over that period since there was no manual way to remove vehicles. /alessandro _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
