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Editorial – The Rights of Corporations – NYTimes.com The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? To us, as well as many legal scholars, former justices and, indeed, drafters of the Constitution, the answer is that their rights should be [...]

In what has been called a “stinging rebuke”, the European Court of the First Instance (CFI) ruled against an appeal by Microsoft in a long-running case pitting the world’s largest software company against the European Commission. The second-highest court in Europe on Monday rejected Microsoft’s attempt to overturn a landmark European Commission antitrust ruling and [...]

In ancient times, one of the weapons that soldiers used was the spear. The good thing about a spear is that it gave the ability to repeatedly hurt your enemy (enemies) before the enemy could get into sword range. Microsoft is looking in its rearview mirror, terrified at the approaching juggernaut that is FLOSS. As [...]

Shortly after CBS’ Don Imus was fired for his remarks, Clear Channel’s Barbara Stanton was suspended for racially-insensitive comments she made on her radio program. I had heard of neither broadcaster before their respective incidents.  Imus was apparently trying to be funny.  Coverage of the event refers to him as a “shock jock,” so it [...]

We mentioned the spam / splog problem recently.  As a way to limit the spread of splogs and blog spam, all comments and trackbacks are moderated and will not appear without approval.  Further, comments require that you join this blog with a valid e-mail address (and after all of that, we still moderate). We have [...]

If you have done many Web searches lately, you have seen dozens or hundreds of spam blogs that pop up during your searches. Recently, I was searching on a blog search site for information on a particular topic and had to wade through about five pages of “splogs” (spam blogs) before I found the first [...]

In Defense Of Free Markets Or, Reasons Why Antitrust Laws Must Be Enforced Sadly, the technology news and information site C|Net has allowed itself to be used as a tool of monopolists. Why is Microsoft under fire for antitrust violations? I am not an attorney, but just reading the news and my old business law [...]

James Robertson of Cincom Smalltalk has been following the story. Apparently, a woman wrote in her blog about a bad personal experience with an employment agency. The agency responded with a personal attack in the comments of her blog, followed by a letter from an attorney to remove the blog entry or face a suit. [...]

As a very minor and unknown member of the community of online personalities, I am grieved to read about the persecution of Kathy Sierra. I had honestly never heard of her before, nor of any of her persecutors. However, it is difficult to go anywhere online without bumping into the story. She is being threatened [...]

Spent some time at the county law library, checking into incorporation. We are a nation of laws, as well as all sorts of compliance enforcement staffers in a multitude of different agencies. If you have not checked on your legal compliance recently, now is a good time to look into that. Are you properly registered, [...]