Last Call: Firesale ConCall 11/20/08 @ 5pmET

Last call to join us on Thursday, November 20 at 5pm ET for a free discussion how to negotiate through the typical end-of-year deals commonly seen (and the expected “extras” as a result of the current economic state). Stephen Guth from the VMO Blog will get the topic rolling, but the remainder of the [...]

Reminder: Free Firesale ConCall 11/20/08 @ 5pm - Register Now!

Don’t pass up the opportunity to fill the last few seats and join us on Thursday, November 20 at 5pm ET for a free discussion how to negotiate through the typical end-of-year deals commonly seen (and the expected “extras” as a result of the current economic state). Stephen Guth from the VMO Blog will [...]

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 the [...]

Special Offer for Owners of the Software Licensing Handbook, 2ed

On September 12th, I will be sending out notice to the world announcing the availability of the second edition of the Software Licensing Handbook.  You might have noticed the book picture on the right has changed a bit… yep, you can buy it today (I’ll be available via Amazon and other resellers in about a [...]

LegalTED

If you’ve never heard of TED, you should check it out!  (If you’ve gone to TED, please let me know.)
Anyways, TED’s an annual conference designed to bring the best thinkers together from the entire world to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.  These folks are encouraged to speak with the other TED attendees [...]

License Grant Discussion at AdamsDrafting

Ken Adams has a great discussion going on over at his blog, AdamsDrafting on license grant language.  Ken’s general concern is that a license grant is overly complex language, redudant at best and confusing at worst.  This follows his general feelings regarding contract language (that we need to simplify and get rid of anachronisms).  And, [...]

Software Licensing Handbook Review by Brian Sommer

Brian Sommer over at Software Safari posted a nice review of my Software Licensing Handbook today.
Brian: thank you for taking the time to read the whole book and write the review!

What Jeff has done is dismantle a standard software contract. He has dissected its component parts into easy to understand sections that explain what a [...]

Server Problem

Sorry to anyone who tried to visit yesterday… a server-side setting was somehow changed during server maintenance.  It’s fixed now … and there will be a new post on Tuesday.  Enjoy your Sunday!

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Lots of new stuff today

If you’ve recently visited the regular blog site at www.licensinghandbook.com, you might have noticed a few new things.
First, I’ve changed the entire layout.  I thought it was time for a visual overhaul that made things easier to read and more accessible.  I’ve leveraged the power of WordPress and the skills of Mr. Michael Andrade.  He [...]

Translation Services

When looking at my visitor logs, I noticed that I’m getting a larger number of non-US visitors.  I found a translation utility and you can now click a flag on the sidebar (look down and to the right) corresponding to your country.  I’m sorry it doesn’t include all languages, I’m limited to those available on [...]

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