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That Ekirch article is great reading. Thank you.

What was the date they started in the UK? How much cash on hand did they have at that point? A billion or so in the bank maybe? It all started with public data. Google was born out…

And didn't CL change their terms (excl-->nonexcl) after some blogger posted about them? And didn't they make some changes to their site (collaborate with a maps provider so users c…

If data is deliberately made available to the public, then it's public data. Even if's made available for free, that won't stop some on the web from trying to repackage it and deri…

"The law really only intimidates the people playing by the rules, or trying to." A seemingly simple yet profound statement. Thanks for this.

Do you think most people listing ads on CL read the terms and understand them as you did? (Or were the terms confusing?) Are CL's terms different from what one would normally expec…

spellcheck: abolute My favorites were the last paragraph and the last footnote. How did those Russians get on anyway? The only other thing I would add is that these high growth com…

I read the article differently. I think he's both smart and that he is spot on (but maybe Jarvis is the real source). Apple gets a lot of "free help" from the media, not to mention…

Have you read the CL complaint?

"stole" market share. You got it. "[S]tole" was just a figure of speech. And that is in fact what meant by stole. re: scraping. This is something that has come before the courts a …

"stole" and "steal" and "CL idea" are all in quotes for a reason. Here, quotes are intended to signify the words quoted do not necessarily carry their dictionary meanings. They car…

The more Sherman Act claims that are brought against web incumbents, the sooner one is going to stick. The CL blog stinks of entitlement. Craigslist "stole" the classifieds busines…

I am sure about what I said in my comment, not what you've said in yours. I said they started with free data. And indeed they started with data on the US, not the UK. Everyting beg…

"cyber aggression" Wow.

Credit to Mapquest for opening their data to all and giving OSM a big push forward. Correct me if I'm wrong but Google Maps started with public data. Data you tradtionally could fi…

Take away the financial incentive: high fees. Good luck with that. The only way to stop this troll problem is to stop these patents from being issued. Nip it in the bud. There will…

3. Control bad PR. Warrantless threats of litigation are attributed to the shell not the troll. As far as the press can see the troll is not involved.

1. Limit liability. Each threatened action is made by a separate LLC created just for that purpose. The troll's company is not put at risk every time they want to threaten someone …

Google the Merciful should just send over a few maps people and help them out. What fun is a "thermonuclear war"[1] when it's so one-sided? 1. As declared by Our Man Jobs.

I wonder if they all took separate flights, because of the danger to Apple of having them all on one flight. What if there was a tragic plane crash? Apple could end up like Lynyrd …

We could probably get the answer by hanging out on an ESL forum for a bit, that's assuming it's non-native English speakers who are making this mistake (it might not be!).

Can't wait to read this study. The simple and unpleasant truth, as past research has shown, is that so much business, irrespective of its legality, is conducted using shells, so mu…

Not sure bout you but I see this as an _extremely_ common misspelling on the web. I would love to know how it arises. Phonetics? Soundalike? Lose and loose certainly have very diff…