In ever-growing numbers, CIOs want to take advantage of the many benefits that free and open-source software have to offer their companies. But there's a snag. Their lawyers can be grouchy when it comes to open-source.
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Member since:2005-07-08
I admire your gumption. However, after you graduate from your IP law program, flat broke in the big city, you'll realize, "screw my ideological agenda, I need to make money and pay off my student loans or else I'll never be able to retire!!"
You don't go into IP law to change IP law. That's what politics is for. You're much better of signing up for the Army, then run for mayor of a medium-sized town in the New England, practice your handshake, then run for Congress.
Member since:2005-07-14
I admire your gumption. However, after you graduate from your IP law program, flat broke in the big city, you'll realize, "screw my ideological agenda, I need to make money and pay off my student loans or else I'll never be able to retire!!" You don't go into IP law to change IP law.
I don't want to change IP law. I want to steal clients from lawyers that don't know much about the modern IT industry (that includes OSS). I have been told be those in the software business in my state that local lawyers are luddites when it comes to such things.
The only ideological hold-up I have is that I don't want to work for the RIAA suing kids. Anything else is cool for me.
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2005-07-14
If the old lawyers can't keep up with the times then they are just reducing their value and creating a market for competition to survive in. I plan to go to law school because I know that their old ways of thinking leaves a large niche in which I can survive.