the executive summary:
Nutshell: if you’re a law firm considering hiring me, and you stumble across this blog, please don’t get nervous. Instead, talk to me, and/or read the rest of this post. I’m eager to explain why I blog, and why I think it may make me a better lawyer and a good addition to [...]
Much more subdued, subtle, and tasteful (i.e., more in keeping with my current profession) than my previous Pile o’Stickers approach to laptop decoration.
Lasering courtesy Adafruit Industries, who are very cool people- highly recommend them if you’d like to do something fairly interesting and unique with your digital toys.
Seen above a urinal yesterday in a bar in Mountain View: ads for firewalls, security consulting, and used Cisco routers. This is not what you see in normal bars in the rest of the world.
So, I had a positive roomba review a few weeks ago. I humbly submit that that review was wrong. What should have happened was a totally raving, ‘this is the greatest thing since sliced bread’ review.
Here is what I know now that I didn’t know then: the old roomba ate things- shoelaces, power cords, rug [...]
“Why can’t I lease an engagement ring and use the savings to buy a much bigger wedding ring?”
– In discussion of a workshop version of this excellent and intriguing paper, on the leasing of antiquities as an alternative to the very broken bans on trade in antiquities, and the resulting black market (which is not [...]
After an abysmal 9 week losing streak (covering two seasons) I’ve not only won a game in my fantasy football league but I appear to be on pace for the highest score of the weekend. Finally. Krissa was beginning to wonder why I subjected myself to this. Of course, she’ll probably still wonder why I [...]
Mark Radcliffe, of DLA Piper (I interview there on Monday, by coincidence) has a ‘view from a real lawyer’ on the case.
Mark seems to suggest that the answer to my question of ‘why now’ may be that this is a reaction to the Jacobsen case. While a number of open source lawyers believed that Jacobsen [...]
Following up on the last post after some quick discussions with friends:
At this point, this is still merely a complaint- nothing has gone to trial, nor will it for some time. In fact, most cases which reach this stage still never go to trial- they settle before getting that far. Still, this case is notable [...]
Just read the complaint in the GPL violation lawsuit filed today on behalf of Busybox. Couple things jumped out at me:
This is exactly what you think it is: a very straightforward “you are distributing binaries without the source, which you are not licensed to do” case. Nothing complicated here; if the license is valid, Busybox [...]
(bleg, not lazyweb, because I’ve looked high and low and still can’t find what I need for this project.)
I’m looking for a high-res (ideally vector-AI/EPS/SVG) version of the old IBM penguin:
I promise it will be used for good and not for evil; I just want to print one copy, albeit in a fairly unusual way.
Thanks [...]
