Comment by tptacek
2 months ago
I assure you that Excel spreadsheets with formulas in them are FOIA-able in Illinois. Since we can take that as axiomatic, I think we can put "schemas are software" to bed.
2 months ago
I assure you that Excel spreadsheets with formulas in them are FOIA-able in Illinois. Since we can take that as axiomatic, I think we can put "schemas are software" to bed.
SQL schemas aren't Excel spreadsheets.
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.
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.
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