Re: [PLUG] Help with Lawsuit

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 02:54 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> Okay, fine, so it's in Microsoft's propietary format, not IBM's. So
> what? Point still stands; they've paid for development to present an
> interface through which you can retrieve this information. You're
> asking them to present you with a different interface to the same
> data.

IMHO, he wasn't asking for *any* interface, but for the raw data (i.e.  
a one line sql statement dumping the tables onto a CD image or 
something)

> It's a bit ambiguous, but I'm not too sure you're right about this.
> You're requesting that they provide you with a full dump of just
> these several field of their table. That isn't the medium in which
> it exists; it exists buried in a database (which may very well have
> other information, including things that may NOT qualify under the
> Right to Know Act).

Again, this is a one line SQL statement to get the non-protected fields.

I think it is reasonable to ask for DB dumps of public data, as long as 
you pay a small fee for a clerk to run the query and copy it to some 
sort of portable media.
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