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Rene Grøn is the founder of Zippl Ltd. - makers of the best runnerbike. I met him briefly back in 2001 and now he is back on my radar with an exciting project that we may very likely work together on.

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My friend Lothar Determann of Baker & McKenzie gave a really impressive presentation at this years OSBC in San Francisco on The Viral/Immunizing Effect Revisited - How Far Can/Do/Should Open Source Licenses Go?.

Lothar presented a very interesting angle on copyleft open source licences. His point was among others that copyleft provision (theoretically) could be invalidated by the courts as “copyright misuse”. Copyright misuse is an equitable defense against copyright infringement in the United States based on the unreasonable conduct of the copyright owner.

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MOC Systems ApS is a client of mine within open source. MOC Systems is successfully trying to become a major player within Typo3 solutions. From left to right Erik Lorenz Petersen (not associated with Moc Systems ApS though) and co-founders Gert Birnbacher and Jan Erik Revsbech.

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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkably edited by John Brockman

Code: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge by Cass R. Sunstein

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

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I am following the legal track at the OSCB. And I am surprised by the much higher quality of the presentations by the presenting lawyers here at what is a business conference mostly for attendees without a legal background than the presentations on open source legal issues at for instance the ITECHLAW conference in Prague last november 2006. Admittedly the legal presentations at this OSBC is also remarkably better than those at the first OSBC Europe last summer.

For the first time in my experience the presentations have been very focused on particular relevant issue and actually going in to depths with respect to the topics. Until now those previous presentations that I have heard have always involved presenters that felt the need to really give the audience the very basics on open source software and its licenses, either because the presenters assume that this was the level of information that the audience was able to understand or because they themselves had simply not gone beyond that level. I am afraid that the latter was the case in most situations.

Today at the first day of OSBC I was particularly impressed by the presentation by Stephen Gillespie of Fenwick West on The Scope of Reciprocity/Copyleft Under GPL v3.

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I met a couple of days ago with Steven Bernard who is a partner at the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. WSGR is a very impressive American law firm with a solid base in the middle of Silicon Valley.

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Arne Esmann Jensen (left) is the founder and co-owner of Index System where I am serving as chairman of the board. Index System has some very interesting patent pending information management technoloy that every user of Vista would die to have. Jens Weien Svendsen (right) is our auditor.

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