* Alessandro Rubini <[email protected]> [2009-10-17 14:29:17 +0200]: > 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
By the way. The quote is no longer on the URL above. Yet it is still available on http://web.archive.org/web/20080516120820/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. Best wishes, Matthias -- German Coordinator, Fellowship Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [] (http://fsfe.org) Join the Fellowship of FSFE! [][][] (http://fsfe.org/join) Your donation powers our work! || (http://fsfe.org/donate) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
