In what is widely regarded as a nuisance suit, Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing GMU for their support in developing the open source bibliographic software Zotero. For more on the controversy see here, here, and here.
In a recent announcement, GMU reports that they will be dropping their Endnote license:
With litigation pending between Thomson and Mason, we’re letting our campus site license for EndNote expire at the end of November. When it lapses, any copy of EndNote that was downloaded and installed under the terms of that license will have to be uninstalled and removed.
In addition, GMU has provided a helpful website explaining how to migrate from Endnote to Zotero.
This disturbing incident is further evidence, if evidence were needed, of the perils of keeping your data in propriety formats. Keeping your data in formats that comply with open standards is really the only guaranteed way to control and reliably share your data.
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