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Archive for February 2008

Feb 25th
2008

GPLv3 v2

I was just checking stats on adoption of the GPLv3.  The total number of projects under v3 is approaching 2,000, and, as we know, some really visible projects switched from v2 to v3 some time ago, including Samba and SugarCRM (Community Edition).
Few topics of common interest to tech lawyers and technologists have generated as much passionate […]

Feb 6th
2008

Desparately seeking sunshine

West coast lawyers who do VC financings generally don’t appreciate the fact that the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association Model Financing Documents drafting committee always occurs this time of year someplace warm and sunny, but I sure do.  I’m off to the 2008 meeting, which is tomorrow in San Diego.  I unfortunately won’t be there long enough to […]

Feb 2nd
2008

Microsoft-Yahoo!

Rumors of Microsoft’s possible acquisition of Yahoo! have been circulating for more than two years, of course, and I know Ray Ozzie would take pains to credit others who share responsibility for the takeover bid the company has now launched.  Still, after nearly three years at Microsoft and a year and a half as Chief Software Architect, Ray’s influence is […]