No Slinky Companies

I attended the 2007 iteration of the Esprit Entrepreneur Awards last night here in Boulder, Colorado. The Awards are held each year as the culmination of a nearly week long series of events honoring the local entrepreneurial community in Boulder. Organized by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and run largely by volunteers from the [...]

OLPC, Now for You and Me (Too)

For those of you who do not already know, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project was established by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte with the stated mission of developing and providing a means for “learning, self-expression and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access [...]

Pity the Source Code Escrow Provider

Like most lawyers, I receive calls on a fairly regular basis from third party service providers looking to sell me one of any number of legal-related services — translation, legal research, drafting, advertising, the list goes on and on. Today’s call was from a source code escrow provider. Thankfully, I was out of my [...]

Open Source Dilbert

I enjoy reading Dilbert once in a while. Who doesn’t? The genius of Dilbert creator Scott Adams is that he has a knack for capturing subjects that resonate with the experiences of most all of us who have worked in or with corporate America. I had a chuckle from the Dilbert [...]