OpenLife

Open source law is a big business area for me. I get at lot of work at Bender von Haller Dragsted that involves advising on legal aspects of the development and use of software released on an open source license. Some of that work reaches me through the cooperation that I do with Black Duck Software - the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code.
Some of the local Scandinavian work associated with the Black Duck products is done in cooperation with Malmoe, Sweden based Purple Scout.

Last week I met with Hans Bak (in the picture above) of CodeExperts, based in Amsterdam. CodeExperts is a highly skilled reseller and business partner of Black Duck Software that offer a set of solutions and professional assessment services that provide the highest level of assurance during due diligences.

I hope to cooperate with Hans in the future to assist his European clients with legal aspects of the results of the Black Duck Software code reviews that Code Experts is offering.

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I spend a week two years ago in Tokyo just as a tourist. Since then I have wanted to go back to visit some companies, lawfirms, business people to try to establish som kind of network that I could work with in the future. But somehow it always seemed very difficult for someone like me with no prior presence in or connection to Japanese society to penetrate the establishment there without a gateway in the form of some people who could introduce me to the right people in say Tokyo.

I think that found that person now. Sam Kondo Steffensen - with whom and Boye Hartmann (to the right in the picture above) I am helping out EasyFlow, an IT solution company based on Noerrebro in Copenhagen - is unique as a Dane married to a Japanese, that speaks japanese and that has assisted in Japan with seting-up clusters for technology start-ups. Japan here I come

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Here are Per B. Rasmussen and Morten Busk, co-founders and partners at eCapacity, which is an independent online consulting company. I hope to be working with Per and Morten in the future on joint projects for clients.

At a lunch meeting the other day Per and Morten presented their new consultancy set-up to me and my colleague Flemming Christensen.

My take away from the session was that I don’t really see how eCapacity is so very much different from other consulting firms in terms of any unique way of approaching the market, innovative products or service, fee structures and so on. To me the important criteria for choosing eCapacity as you partners or consultants would be (1) that Per and Morten are in fact independent from e.g. the platform vendors that they will deal with during a project and (2) that Per and Morten have proven execution skills fra their previous jobs.

This two advantages would be crucial for my choice, and Per and Morten score very high on both!

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I am not really sure what to make of this. But today I reached 1,000 confirmed contacts on LinkedIn

Here’s is my LinkedIn public profile.

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I enjoy meeting once in a while with Peter Hesseldahl to discuss his ideas and visions about the future (and present) with respect to technology, information, society and all that jazz.

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It is funny how you meet people that you knew from way back when you were young(er) and they look older (of course) but are exactly the same as way back then. I know Michael Hjalsted, who is now Sales Director, Unisys S&T, Nordic region, from when I was an active handball player in a youth team of Hellerup Idræts Klub (HIK), a suburban Copenhagen sportsclub. I haven’t seen Michael for maybe 15-20 years. Fortunately, he is still the same

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Two great conference coming up on my otherwise not so extensive or busy travelling schedule.

Just after the Easter break I will travel to San Francisco to attend the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).

The about two months after I will return to San Francisco to attend Supernova 2008. This trip is arranged by the Danish eBusiness Association (FDIH).

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Here is an interesting article “Six Degrees of messaging” on how people connect via chat drawing on a comparison to the famous Stanley Milgram study.

What would make such study much more interesting would to see how people found each other via different messenger service such af Skype, Yahoo, Google and so forth and not just MSN Messenger. But I am even more puzzled about how people would connect by using search and maybe tags on mutual interests!

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(Enzym co-founder Jan Dreyer with a new 1508 tech team t-shirt)

As part of my lawfirm Bender von Haller Dragsted I have been doing a lot of M&A work within the Danish IT industry the last couple of years.

Last Friday after lengthy and exhausting but very friendly and constructive negotiations and due diligence proces, my client, leading Danish design- and webagency 1508 A/S, purchased all business activities of another Danish company, Enzym A/S, who brings important technical skills to 1508, in particular with respect to Sitecore solutions.

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A nice way to spend a Friday afternoon is at Häckeberga Slott in southern Sweden with Purple Scout giving a crash course in open source law to a bunch of coders eager to ask all kinds of answers not all that easy to answer for me.

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