WSO2 got a "cease and desist" type of letter yesterday from Southwest Airlines. I was frankly pretty surprised as we haven't gone into the airline business yet. And the private jet is... well the private jet is still just fantasy.
It turns out they didn't like Jonathan's Southwest Checkin Mashup. I guess I can see why. Jonathan's cool piece of technology means that anyone who knows about it can get an A-rated boarding pass and therefore gets on the plane earlier and gets the best seats. Now obviously this can't scale. If everyone on the plane used the Mashup, then we'd be back to square one.
So Jonathan has pulled the Mashup from our online site Mooshup.com.
On the other hand I personally think that if you are smart enough to download the Mashup Server, cadge the code off Jonathan and run it, you deserve a better seat!
The full story is here.
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ReplyDeleteDefinitely! Smart people deserve better treatment. I wonder what Southwest will do about it when individuals start doing that... will Jonathan still be liable since he wrote the code? :D
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