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posted by martyb on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the monetizing-taxpayer-funded dept.

Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app

WetterOnline has won its case against Germany's national weather service. The company sued the service over the anti-competitive nature of its free weather forecast app.

The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app after a federal court ruled in favor of a private firm on Thursday.

[...] the national meteorological service will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and that a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.

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No national weather service could ever make a profit by giving away weather information for free.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:35AM (#970989)

    Does this mean that some German FOSS programmer can make an app that scrapes the DWD forecasts? Great way to advertise yourself if you are the code writer.