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I assume you're doing "work for hire", which implies that your copyright is assigned to the client in consideration for your wages. In your agreement, you could explicitly specifiy…

Here are all the patent cases in which Google was a plaintiff. They appear to all be declaratory judgments against NPE defendants. 4:2004-cv-04922 Google Inc. v. Skyline Software S…

Killer service, but two things jump out. 1) Need dkim signing by own domain and 2) envelope sender should match from address. These don't matter if you're sending to consumer domai…

$9/mo fixed cost is a big step up from a pure pay-as-you-go. (But, also the cost of two cups of coffee at Starbucks, so still a bargain for the service provided.)

Totally right -- it's well within FB's TOS and you have no recourse other than to email them. But, humans responding to email doesn't scale well, hence the poor "customer service".…

Fair point. I feel like it's somewhat similar here. If djangy was [becoming] a success the team may have made a different decision.

Quite respectable that they knew what they wanted and made the tough decision. Nothing wrong with striving greatly and failing, as long as you're in the arena. http://www.theodore-…

Postmark is amazing, particularly the service from Natalie and Chris. Whenever I have an issue they respond within 20 minutes. It's unclear to me reading the SES docs how their spa…

Contingency counsel is usually only found on the plaintiff side. Twitter will use a big, reputable, and expensive defense firm.

It costs quite a bit, even to deal with trivial cases. Six figures at a minimum for show up at the courthouse, mostly in attorney's fees.

Patents do not defend against "trolls" because "trolls" don't make products.

Precisely, the article is FUD. There are many similar patents and the invention disclosed in this particular application is quite specific.

Give them away to friends -- ideas are generally worthless, execution is everything. Be wary of your wife's laments, problems at home will sink your start up(s) very quickly.

They're open to lawsuits is any case -- such in the nature of selling products in the US. They likely have product liability insurance.

Sometimes?

Precisely. Isolated facts out of context make poor and usually misleading arguments.

Isn't that a pretty big downside? Maybe I'm alone, but I use dropbox mostly for collaboration.

Reaching business users is very difficult: they are generally older and not active on social networks with the exception of linked in. However, few people are "active" on LI except…

This is super useful thanks. I'm mystified why puppet lacks substantive ec2 documentation on their website. I would have thought this was a major use case.

I'd like to see the sponsored research agreement. MIT specifies these things in all contacts. Not good for all parties involved because destroys much "value".

Thanks, credit to my wife.