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CAD International interview on drcauto and other subjects

1 February 2010 at 11:33 pm » Comments (1)

This morning I spoke with CAD International's Nigel Varley. Here is a paraphrased summary of the interview. SJ: When did CAD International buy the drcauto intellectual property rights? NV: About two weeks ...more »

Ralph Lauren – genuinely dumb or trying to be clever?

8 October 2009 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

One of the blogs I read regularly is Photoshop Disasters, which recently posted a picture of a Ralph Lauren ad. In common with many fashion photos, this showed a skinny ...more »

Vernor wins (for now), customers don’t

6 October 2009 at 10:19 am » Comments (1)

Don't get too excited, because I'm sure Autodesk will appeal, but as reported at Owen Wengerd's CAD/Court, Vernor has won the right to resell his used copies of AutoCAD. While ...more »

Should you read software license agreements?

22 April 2009 at 6:23 pm » Comments (3)

Evan Yares has raised an interesting point about the insolvency clause in Autodesk's End User License Agreement. Please read the whole thing, but the gist is that there's a clause ...more »

More on ODA, Autodesk and click-through agreements

16 April 2009 at 11:48 am » Comments (0)

Evan Yares has provided more information on the incident I mentioned in my last post. Here it is: It was years ago. My guess was that the person who did ...more »

Evan Yares, ODA, Autodesk and click-through agreements

15 April 2009 at 4:44 pm » Comments (0)

I've always found it entertaining when the lawyers of CAD companies do their best to make their clients look like total jerks. The opening shots as presented by Evan Yares ...more »

Vernor v Autodesk – why I think Autodesk is right

21 February 2009 at 9:56 pm » Comments (20)

Well, there's a statement I wasn't expecting to make. Let me preface these comments with a disclaimer. I have no legal qualifications whatsoever. I make no claims of knowing who ...more »

blog nauseam Terms of Use

26 November 2008 at 8:57 pm » Comments (4)

It seems that not only EULAs but also web sites must have onerous, unconscionable, ridiculously restrictive and utterly unenforceable sets of rules these days. I don't want to miss out ...more »