Firesale Conference Call: Thursday, November 20 @ 5pm ET
If you haven’t already started getting calls from your vendors with better-than-average offers if you’ll just buy now, you’re bound to get them soon. It’s called the End-of-Year Firesale… when quotas are important and sales numbers appear to make or break careers. How are YOU going to respond when the calls start to come? Join [...]
DMCA’s 10 Year Anniversary
Wired has a great re-cap of the history and impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, signed ten years ago today (and 3 years before the new millenium, just in case anyone noticed). Here are a few more reactions: Electronic Frontier Foundation Amrit Williams Blog Wired Blog Network Public Knowledge Freedom to Tinker TechDirt Free [...]
Creative Financing
When I was a kid, I lived about a mile from K-Mart. There was no such thing as Wal-Mart or Target. But then again, Diners Club was still a viable charge card (different than credit, charge cards are “pay entire balance” cards, like AmEx) and you actually had to have a decent credit score to [...]
Value of a Contracts Person
I’ve been asked, at every job I’ve been on, to justify my existence. Some places just want to know what I do. Others really care about the dollar value of the role to the company. E-mail did it once. Another was a full-blown business case. But the end result is always the same – somehow, [...]
Stephen Guth Gives Away Contract Templates
My good friend, Stephen Guth, over at the Vendor Management Blog has decided to go ahead and release many of his “battle-tested” contracts away to you for free. But, although conventional wisdom says that free advice is worth what you pay for it, in this case just because something is free doesn’t mean it’s without [...]
EULAs: The “I’m Rubber, You’re Glue” Edition
Back in August, I wrote about Cracking the EULA’s shell. In that instance, a California court was headed down the path of declaring EULAs as contracts of adhesion. This was a pretty hard blow to the EULA’s drafter (the vendor). Today is a new EULA case, with a twist. Long story short, a court ruled [...]
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