<story><title>Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes</title><url>http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyrelb</author><text>Canada Post is pretty stupid on this one. Even if you type a postal code into Google Maps you get a result.&lt;p&gt;I could imagine how old and stupid the gov&apos;t official is who filed that claim. Canada&apos;s a broke country, and the latest government budget has cut a tonne of government jobs, slashed R&amp;#38;D credits, etc.</text></item><item><author>motti_s</author><text>Things are changing. Technology is cheaper, internet is prevalent and small organizations disrupt the ways of the dinosaurs. We&apos;ve seen that with newspapers, we are seeing that with Hollywood and we&apos;ll soon see it in education. The dinosaurs are big and powerful, but we all know what happens to them eventually. Sooner or later technology wins. Always.&lt;p&gt;Having said that I hope Geocoder gets help with PR. I&apos;m no PR expert but the fact that this post is not on their front page is the first bad sign. And the media, which always loves a David &amp;#38; Goliath story, apparently hasn&apos;t covered this; that&apos;s another bad sign. Swaying public opinion to your side is the way to win this, not litigation. If Geocoder lets Canada Post drag them to court they&apos;ve already lost.&lt;p&gt;As a Canadian I&apos;m one of the owners of Canada Post and I hope I lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tabbyjabby</author><text>Canada has the lowest debt to GDP ratio in the G7. We&apos;ve been in surplus for the greater part of the last decade, and are soon to be back in the black. Broke? I&apos;m not so sure about that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes</title><url>http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyrelb</author><text>Canada Post is pretty stupid on this one. Even if you type a postal code into Google Maps you get a result.&lt;p&gt;I could imagine how old and stupid the gov&apos;t official is who filed that claim. Canada&apos;s a broke country, and the latest government budget has cut a tonne of government jobs, slashed R&amp;#38;D credits, etc.</text></item><item><author>motti_s</author><text>Things are changing. Technology is cheaper, internet is prevalent and small organizations disrupt the ways of the dinosaurs. We&apos;ve seen that with newspapers, we are seeing that with Hollywood and we&apos;ll soon see it in education. The dinosaurs are big and powerful, but we all know what happens to them eventually. Sooner or later technology wins. Always.&lt;p&gt;Having said that I hope Geocoder gets help with PR. I&apos;m no PR expert but the fact that this post is not on their front page is the first bad sign. And the media, which always loves a David &amp;#38; Goliath story, apparently hasn&apos;t covered this; that&apos;s another bad sign. Swaying public opinion to your side is the way to win this, not litigation. If Geocoder lets Canada Post drag them to court they&apos;ve already lost.&lt;p&gt;As a Canadian I&apos;m one of the owners of Canada Post and I hope I lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>Unlike the States, Canada does not have a cash-in-cash-out system for our version of Social Security, so many debt to gdp figures you look up online are very, very misleading since we will be in much better shape when the baby boomers retire.</text></comment>