I’m thinking of calling my open services work ‘principled services’ going forward to split some of the difference between open and Free, and remove some of the ambiguity around the often-overloaded terms ‘open and ‘free’. In the meantime, we’re about to get a flood of discussion of open services, courtesy of Open Social, the new [...]
As I just announced on foundation-list, I’ll be running again for the Board this year. This will be an unusual candidacy. I will not be running to do various and sundry board tasks; I’ll be running to do exactly one thing:
legal work- a vote for me is a vote that says ‘Luis should be the [...]
“business-school grading is … much more rational than law school grading because MBA students are graded on the strength of their actual work, not a single exam at the end of the semester.” (emphasis mine; quote from here)
Only in law could this be considered a radical and provocative statement. The field of law excites me; [...]
Thanks, max…
(1) for speaking well of me to Jamie (who probably very, very vaguely remembers me from various conversations we’ve had through the years at Berkman and Duke) - he’s one of the best at what he does, and I have a huge amount of respect for him.
(2) for that second paraphrase:
“On any law school [...]
My sister Deblois will be swinging through California through early November, including stops in Modesto, Fairfax, San Francisco, and (gulp) San Diego. full calendar here. Her shows tend to be low-key but fun little events; I highly recommend if you want an entertaining and enjoyable evening. And she’ll gush if you tell her I sent [...]
It is sad that my immediate reaction to this article was ‘at least Colbert is being up front about which corporations own his campaign.’ Overwhelmed, indeed.
I saw a post some months ago (maybe a year ago?) in which the author had done some scans of debian list subscribers and found what percentage of list subscribers were using gmail. I can’t find the post now, though. Anyone remember who it was, and/or can point me to the post? Would be much [...]
I’ve been slagging groklaw a bit of late, but this is a solid, informative article on patent ‘dates’ (expiration, age of prior art, etc.) that corrects a mistake I made a couple times on Friday with regards to expiration dates. Might be worth reading for those of you curious about the age and validity of [...]
Last week I helped write a long blog post (short article?) on some of the legal issues around BitTorrent as part of my work for the Science and Technology Law Review. After some editing and polish to integrate the work of the various co-authors, it has been posted at the law school’s Project On Law [...]
John: I have on my desk a nearly final draft of the Software Freedom Law Center’s new “Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects”. The final draft will apparently be made public very shortly, and I think it should answer a lot of your questions. One of the lawyers at the event, [...]
