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by grellas 15y ago
What Zynga is doing is pretty repulsive, as I previously commented in a related thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219437 ), but it is not accurate to say that "[t]hey have to fire you for cause for you to lose your options." The
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by grellas 15y ago
The oddball thing here is not that people are being let go so that a startup can recapture their unvested stock (as you note, this happens all the time, for reasons both good and bad) but that a company would create what amounts to a "hit l
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Twitter Holds Ground in Patent Suit - and Wins(paidcontent.org)
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by grellas 15y ago
The theme of the original blog post upon which this article is based is that "Silicon Valley criminals should be held to account for their actions" just as those who are the focus of Occupy Wall Street's protestations should be. This is, in
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Let anybody become a lawyer?(theatlantic.com)
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Netflix Isn't Doomed(online.wsj.com)
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Protect innovators, not copyright lawyers(law.com)
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My Heroes(jacquesmattheij.com)
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Patent licensing raises tech sector's pulse(business.financialpost.com)
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Hacked(theatlantic.com)
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by grellas 15y ago
A business contract typically tells a story about what two or more people hope to achieve by a mutual exchange of items of value in their deal. For most such contracts, a "meeting of the minds" lies at the heart of what the contract means a
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by grellas 15y ago
Just a passing note here without commenting on the substance of these claims. Many founders do a "quickie LLC" on their own "just to get started" with the expectation that they will get a lawyer later to clean up the paperwork. When they do
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Jefferson, Copyright Law, and the Net(volokh.com)
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Facebook challenger's lawyers: Please don't sanction us(newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com)
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Difference Engine: Programmed Nonsense (software patents)(economist.com)
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For Stanford grads, Jobs's commencement speech in 2005 was life-changing(mercurynews.com)
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Apple Files Patent for In-App Purchases(tomsguide.com)
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S. Ct. weighs legality of putting public domain works back under copyright(arstechnica.com)
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Courts Call Out Copyright Trolls' Business Model, Threaten Sanctions(eff.org)
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by grellas 15y ago
This ruling is inherently limited. It is not rendered by an appellate court and is not binding on anyone but the parties immediately before the court. It poses two issues of broader interest - (1) whether a school that buys DVDs can legitim
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U.S. Post Office touts advantages of snail mail over email(techdirt.com)
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A copyright case with huge policy implications is set for oral argument tomorrow(scotusblog.com)
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Burying the Hatchet(online.wsj.com)
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The End of Evil?(slate.com)
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IBM rises again as its stock passes a declining Microsoft(arstechnica.com)
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by grellas 15y ago
Very good point - I actually had just edited my point 3 (first sentence) to add this point, posted the edit, and then saw your post. This definitely fits into the equation in an important way as part of the policy discussion. Thanks for h
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by grellas 15y ago
A few thoughts: 1. It is bad form for this sort of thing to be aired publicly. It may give us a voyeuristic fascination on something that is depicted as an internal intrigue within a prominent up-and-coming startup but this is fundamentally
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A scathing critique of Facebook v. Teachbook ruling (legal technical)(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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Lawsuit May Halt Rollout of Facebook's Timeline(paidcontent.org)
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What You Don't Get About Admissions: Q&A with College Guru Edward Fiske(theatlantic.com)
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