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SQL schemas aren't Excel spreadsheets.

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tptacek1y ago· 2 in thread

That's fascinating, but you just claimed Excel spreadsheets were "software" in the sense of the Illinois FOIA statute definition, and they are not. QED.

hot_grilOP1y ago

You said that SQL schemas aren't software, and that's what this lawsuit was about. If they explicitly say that Excel docs (even w/ formulas) aren't software, I think they're wrong, but that doesn't matter because Excel docs aren't SQL schema.

Now if you want to go by Illinois definitions, SQL schemas are file layouts, that's why the plaintiff lost.

tptacek1y ago

Again: the post explains why the court determined schemas to be file layouts, and none of it involves any of the logic you've supplied here. Even Chicago didn't try to claim that a schema was a "software".

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