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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, absent payment in full, the copyright remains with you. (This is may be the case anyway.) That is, they don't own it without paying for it.

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 Systems Inc. 5:2005-md-01654 In re Compression Labs, Inc., Patent Litigation 5:2004-cv-03934 Google Inc. v. Compression Labs Inc et al 4:2008-cv-04144 Google Inc. v. Netlist, Inc. 3:2009-cv-00642 Google Inc. v. Traffic Information LLC 1:2011-cv-00175 Microsoft Corporation et al v. GeoTag Inc. 1:2011-cv-00637 Google Inc. v. Sourceprose, Inc. 4:2009-cv-01243 Google, Inc. v. EMSAT Advanced Geo-Location Technology, LLC et al

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 domains (gmail, yahoo), but, as I've learned, they do matter for corporate environments, which are fragmented and antiqued.

$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".

(The quotes because, you're not so much the customer as the product...your eyeballs at least.)

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-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

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 spam handling will be; what they will be doing to police those with whom I share an IP address; and many other things. However, what is clear is that at no point will anybody respond to my support request at 11pm as your staff did the other night.

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 marketers and job seekers. I run a service in the corporate/legal that relies on invites from existing users to get new users. We decided LI integration was not a good use of time. When I have posted content in LI groups I notice very low click through, regardless of the nature of the content.

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.

If the Rf duder is reading this, feel free to contact me. IANAL but I know thousands because I own the most popular patent litigation news service.

I can't wrap my head around what exactly this does. How is this related to mapreduce? Can anybody explain?

Is it bad if the guy legitimately invented things, patented them, and they are infringed?

Few, but you won't be sued unless you are making serious money in the first place.

No, Allen can file an amended complaint that satisfies the court.

Nice article. It could be improved if the author collected numerous, diverse lottery result articles and used these to create a script that outputs randomized articles.

This is already done in the sports area, which is significantly more complicated: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/the-robots-...

Sure, my email is in my profile. The lack of sysadmin is key for me. I focus on the app with gae, not updating BLANK.

I run two profitable businesses on app engine. The occasional downtime is a tolerable exchange for the numerous benefits. (I also use ec2 for computationally expensive jobs. The ec2 instances are started and stopped by gae.)

Bottom line for me is this: on gae one dude, sans team, can be dangerous.

George is spot on. Also, in my experience, it's surprisingly easy to get a law firm to do this gratis depending on your network and prospects. It's cookie cutter for them.

(I've done the diy and professional routes both without problems. The diy co raised vc no problem and survived minor disputes.)