Re: who attacks the weather channel?

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

When IBM purchased TWC, IBM summarily cancelled our heretofore free weather station monitoring through 
Wunderground.com<http://wunderground.com>. Instead IBM offered to “sell” us our own remote data center weather stations 
information back to us at an exorbitant price. No thank you. We switched everything to Ambient.com<http://ambient.com>.

The idea of Wunderground.com<http://wunderground.com> was free public collection and sharing of useful weather data to 
vastly increase the density of coverage over commercial services. It’s a pity IBM, who otherwise supports open source 
through it’s vast Linux contributions, couldn’t see that.

During the Santa Barbara fires last year, our weather station on Gibraltar Peak was the one source firefighting 
helicopter pilots had to obtain ridge wind speeds, which was critical to their operation. Neither the NWS nor TWC or 
IBM is willing to invest in critical public information infrastructure. I’m a capitalist, but I don’t believe 
destroying the good works of others is ultimately profitable.

 -mel

On Apr 18, 2019, at 8:50 AM, Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf () gmail com<mailto:fredbaker.ietf () gmail com>> wrote:

According to this, Weather Underground was purchased by the Weather Channel and firmed “The Weather Company”, and that 
was in turn purchased by IBM last year.

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underground-bought-by-ibm.html

Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways...

On Apr 18, 2019, at 8:38 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com<mailto:morrowc.lists () gmail com>> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:27 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr<mailto:bortzmeyer () nic fr>> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 03:16:34PM +0000,
Kain, Rebecca (.) <bkain1 () ford com<mailto:bkain1 () ford com>> wrote
a message of 69 lines which said:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/media/weather-channel-hack/index.html

May be these people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

I think WU was actually bought by weatherunderground...