[Nutshell for those with less free time than me: Lawrence Lessig is the closest thing I have to a personal hero, and he's leaving the IP/culture game to play for bigger stakes, against even tougher opponents. In this post I explore and explain my very personal relationship to his work, wish him luck, and fervently [...]
GNOME lacks stetic.
Linus on GPL v3 and Sun. I obviously can’t speak to Sun’s motives, but Linus is correct to point out that a GPL v3 ZFS can’t really be sucked into Linux, while a GPL v3 Solaris could take from the various GPL ‘v2 or later’ drivers. More on such things later this week or early [...]
(A belated rant on a certain number, and responses thereto.)
From Ed Felten’s comments:
And it proves again that the lawyers fail to see something very important. . . . _everything_ in the internet _is_ equivalent to a number. In the mathematical sense. You can transform it as often as you want, it is still equivalent to [...]
[Written in large part nearly a year ago, but holds up well on review, so publishing it while waiting for the late-night, extra-innings, baseball game to wrap up.]
Some ponderings on what the legal scholars call textualism and purposiveness, roughly what the rest of us tend to call strict and loose constructionism. These thoughts were inspired [...]
Good morning meeting with boss: good
not finish everything you wanted to before boss left for the weekend: bad
go to airport to go to New York to see girlfriend: good
have flight canceled: bad
get offered new flight, leaving earlier: good
get offered new flight, leaving earlier, the next day: bad (so yes, I’m in RDU for the weekend)
go [...]
I’ve never before actually answered a blog meme (unless you count this.) But sogrady tagged me with one that I thought was interesting. Here goes: three things I would tell every open source business to do; three things I would tell them not to do. (In an attempted to do more than just repeat what [...]
For those interested in the question of whether or not the General Public License is a license or a contract, and how enforceable it is, I was pointed earlier today at this very nice little paper1 by Duke Law prof Sapna Kumar. Also gives a fairly good background on the license, what it does, and [...]
ph33r. I am now footnotes enabled.1
Using the wp-footnotes plugin.2
yes, footnotes. [↩]link [↩]
<hp> your personal mission statement could be like “oGALAXYo of the legal world”
