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ChatGPT, Please Prepare a Software License Agreeement

by Lee Gesmer | Mar 2, 2023 | Contracts, General, Technology

I asked GPT 3.5 to create a license agreement using the following prompt:

Draft an End user object code software license agreement between LICENSOR and LICENSEE using the following terms.

• Formal delivery, acceptance testing, final acceptance within 30 days assumed unless notice within that period
• A site license limited to offices in Cambridge, MA
• The licensor will provide updates annually
• License should be limited to internal use; resale/redistribution prohibited
• The software should be treated as confidential
• The terms of this license agreement must be confidential
• The agreement is subject to Massachusetts law.
• Annual license fee $100,000, increased annually by 5%.
• Price exclusive of applicable taxes
• Term: five years
• Any dispute subject to arbitration, venue in Massachusetts, three person panel with SAAS subject matter expertise
• Agreement is non-assignable
• Agreement is terminable for non-payment; licensee may cure within 30 days notice of default
• Limited warranty in accordance with specifications. Exclusive remedy is damages limited to monies paid by Licensee
• No virus warranty
• Non-infringement warranty
• No claims pending warranty
• No implied warranty or warranty for specific purpose
• Indemnification against IP claims – yes
• Source code escrow accessible in event of material breach by Licensor
• Licensee may not reverse engineer
• Notices in writing – certified mail
• Any amendment must be in writing

Here is the agreement the AI created. What do you think?

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SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

This Software License Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into as of the date of acceptance by Licensee, by and between Licensor, and Licensee.

1. DEFINITIONS.

(a) “Software” means the object code form of the software products specified in the applicable order form or purchase order, and any related documentation, materials, updates, and upgrades provided by Licensor to Licensee under this Agreement.

(b) “Order Form” means the written or electronic document issued by Licensor and executed by both Licensor and Licensee, or submitted electronically by Licensee and accepted by Licensor, specifying the Software licensed by Licensee and any related services.

(c) “Documentation” means the user manuals, installation guides, and other technical documentation provided by Licensor to Licensee.

(d) “Licensee” means the individual or entity that accepts the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

(e) “Licensor” means the individual or entity that licenses the Software to Licensee under this Agreement.

(f) “Support Services” means the support and maintenance services described in Section 5 of this Agreement.

(g) “Confidential Information” means any information disclosed by either party to the other party, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally, or by inspection of tangible objects, which is designated as “Confidential,” “Proprietary,” or some similar designation, or which should reasonably be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information and the circumstances of disclosure.

2. GRANT OF LICENSE.

(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software and Documentation, solely for Licensee’s internal business purposes, and only at Licensee’s offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(b) Licensee shall not use the Software or Documentation for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement.

(d) Licensee shall not remove or alter any proprietary notices or labels on the Software or Documentation.

(e) Licensee shall not disclose or distribute the Software or Documentation to any third party without the prior written consent of Licensor.

3. DELIVERY.

(a) Licensor shall deliver the Software and Documentation to Licensee within thirty (30) days after the date of execution of the Order Form.

(b) Licensee shall have a period of thirty (30) days following delivery to conduct acceptance testing of the Software and Documentation.

(c) Licensee shall notify Licensor in writing within thirty (30) days of delivery if Licensee determines that the Software or Documentation fails to meet the specifications set forth in the Order Form.

(d) If Licensee does not provide written notice of non-acceptance to Licensor within thirty (30) days after delivery, the Software and Documentation shall be deemed accepted by Licensee.

4. UPDATES.

(a) Licensor shall provide updates to the Software and Documentation annually during the term of this Agreement, at no additional charge.

(b) Licensee shall be entitled to install and use such updates during the term of this Agreement.

(c) Licensee shall not use any updates to the Software or Documentation in any manner that violates the terms of this Agreement.

5. SUPPORT SERVICES.

(a) Licensor shall provide Support Services to Licensee during the term of this Agreement, at no additional charge.

(b) Support Services shall include:

(i) Telephone and email support for Licensee’s designated technical support personnel during Licensor’s normal business hours;

(ii) Bug fixes and updates to the Software as necessary to correct material errors or malfunctions that materially affect the Software’s operation in accordance with the Documentation;

(iii) Assistance with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of the Software;

(iv) Access to online support resources, including user forums and knowledge bases; and

(v) Any other support services agreed to by the parties in writing.

(i) The Software or Documentation has been modified, altered, or tampered with by anyone other than Licensor;

(ii) The Software or Documentation has been used in a manner not authorized by this Agreement;

(iii) The failure of the Software to operate is due to causes outside of Licensor’s control, including but not limited to failure of Licensee’s hardware or software systems; or

(iv) Licensee has not paid any applicable fees when due.

6. FEES.

(a) Licensee shall pay Licensor an annual license fee of $100,000, exclusive of any applicable taxes.

(b) The annual license fee shall be increased by five percent (5%) at the beginning of each subsequent year of the term of this Agreement.

(d) Licensor reserves the right to suspend or terminate Licensee’s access to the Software and Support Services if Licensee fails to pay any fees when due.

7. TERM AND TERMINATION.

(a) This Agreement shall commence on the date of acceptance by Licensee and shall continue for a term of five (5) years.

(b) Either party may terminate this Agreement upon written notice if the other party materially breaches any provision of this Agreement and fails to cure such breach within thirty (30) days after receiving written notice of such breach.

(d) Upon termination of this Agreement, Licensee shall immediately cease all use of the Software and Documentation, and shall return or destroy all copies of the Software and Documentation in Licensee’s possession or control.

(e) The provisions of Sections 2(d), 2(e), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.

8. WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS.

(a) Licensor represents and warrants that it has the right to license the Software to Licensee, and that the Software does not infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights.

(b) Licensor warrants that the Software will materially conform to the specifications set forth in the Order Form and the Documentation.

(c) Licensee’s exclusive remedy for any breach of the warranties set forth in this Section 8 shall be for Licensor to use commercially reasonable efforts to correct or replace the non-conforming Software or Documentation, or if Licensor is unable to do so within a reasonable period of time, to refund the fees paid by Licensee for the non-conforming Software or Documentation.

(d) Licensor does not warrant that the Software or Documentation will be error-free or uninterrupted.

(e) Licensor makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the Software or Documentation, including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

(f) Licensee acknowledges that it has not relied on any representations or warranties not expressly set forth in this Agreement.

9. INDEMNIFICATION.

(a) Licensor shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Licensee from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to any third party claim that the Software infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights.

(b) Licensee shall promptly notify Licensor in writing of any claim covered by this Section 9, and Licensor shall have sole control over the defense and settlement of any such claim. Licensee shall provide Licensor with all necessary assistance, information, and authority to perform such defense or settlement.

(i) Obtain for Licensee the right to continue using the Software;

(ii) Modify the Software so that it becomes non-infringing;

(iii) Replace the Software with non-infringing software that is functionally equivalent;

(iv) Terminate this Agreement and refund the fees paid by Licensee for the infringing Software; or

(v) Defend Licensee against the claim.

(d) Licensor shall have no liability under this Section 9 to the extent that the claim is based on:

(i) Any modification of the Software or Documentation by anyone other than Licensor;

(ii) The combination of the Software with any product, service, or process not provided by Licensor, to the extent that such claim would not have arisen but for such combination; or

(iii) Licensee’s failure to use the Software or Documentation in accordance with this Agreement or the Documentation.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

(a) In no event shall Licensor be liable to Licensee for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including but not limited to lost profits, loss of business, or loss of data, arising out of or related to this Agreement, even if Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

(b) Licensor’s total liability to Licensee for all claims arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be limited to the fees paid by Licensee to Licensor under this Agreement during the twelve (12) month period preceding the claim.

11. CONFIDENTIALITY.

(a) Licensee acknowledges that the Software and Documentation contain valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Licensor.

(b) Licensee shall use the same degree of care to protect the confidentiality of the Software and Documentation as it uses to protect its own confidential information, but in no event less than a reasonable degree of care.

(c) Licensee shall not disclose the Software or Documentation to any third party without the prior written consent of Licensor.

(d) The terms of this Agreement shall be deemed Confidential Information of both parties.

(e) This Section 11 shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.

12. ARBITRATION.

(a) Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

(b) The arbitration shall take place in Massachusetts, and the arbitrators shall have experience in the software-as-a-service industry.

(d) The arbitration shall be conducted in the English language.

(e) The decision of the arbitrators shall be final and binding on the parties.

(f) This Section 12 shall not preclude either party from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.

13. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

(a) This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties, and understandings, whether oral or written.

(b) This Agreement may not be amended except in writing signed by both parties.

(c) Licensee may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Licensor.

(d) Licensor may assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the consent of Licensee.

(e) This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

(f) If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

(g) No failure or delay by either party in exercising any right or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy.

(h) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions.

(i) Any notices required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given and received (i) when delivered by hand, (ii) three (3) business days after being sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (iii) one (1) business day after being sent by nationally recognized overnight courier, to the parties at the addresses set forth below or to such other addresses as either party may specify in writing.

Licensor:

[Insert Licensor’s Name and Address]

Attention: [Insert Name and Title]

Licensee:

[Insert Licensee’s Name and Address]

Attention: [Insert Name and Title]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

LICENSOR:

[Insert Licensor’s Name]

By: _____________________________

Name: [Insert Name and Title]

Title: [Insert Title]

LICENSEE:

[Insert Licensee’s Name]

By: _____________________________

Name: [Insert Name and Title]

Title: [Insert Title]

Copyright and Innovation: Hanging on to the Past

by Lee Gesmer | Jul 20, 2012 | Technology

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”

Hunter S. Thompson

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As the battle between online music companies and copyright owners has raged in the courts during the last decade many of us have wondered what was going on behind the scenes. How did the record companies and publishers assess the threat of digital music to their industry? Why did they react as they did? What effect did their decisions have on innovation and investment in online music companies?

Professor Michael Carrier, Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, has tried to answer some of these questions by conducting interviews with a range of influential people in the music industry — people who witnessed these events and decisions as they unfolded. He presents his results in a cutting edge law review article published on SSRN in early July: Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story. This paper, which is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review, is an inside look at these issues, through the eyes of 31 “CEOs, company founders, and vice-presidents from technology companies, the recording industry, and venture capital firms.” Of course, we can’t know the extent to which the opinions expressed by these individuals reflect reality. The battle between the labels and digital music companies is far from concluded, and it’s possible that these individuals were grinding their own particular axes, even in the semi-anonymous context user by Professor Carrier.* However, it has the ring of truth, and I discount it very little, if at all. Hunter Thompson must be nodding agreement from the grave.

*The interviewees are identified in the study, but specific quotes are not attributed to specific individuals.

After providing some background information on the seminal 2000/2001 Napster case, and more recent legal issues associated with online copyright law, Professor Carrier presents the results of his interviews with record labels executives, artists and venture capitalists. At the heart of his paper is the question of how the record industry confronted their own version of the “Innovators Dilemma” – the “dilemma” that an industry faces when it is confronted by an alternative technology (the so-called “disruptive technology”) that is less expensive and threatens to replace the status quo. Resist, adapt or some of each? These are the choices the record industry — no stranger to change throughout the late 20th century — was faced with by peer-to-peer technologies. However, this time the change went far deeper than it had in the past. How did they react?

Perhaps not too surprisingly, the answer does not do the labels proud. According to Professor Carrier the labels were completely blind-sided by digital music downloads, and they reacted defensively. Prof. Carrier quotes record label officials who described Napster as “terrifying,” and “devastating.” A “sudden shock to the system” that the labels “were not prepared for.” Although the record industry waged a massive, all-out legal war against Napster and services such a Kazaa, LimeWire, Morpheus and BitTorrent, as well as suing thousands of individuals, they have been unable to put the genie back in the bottle. By failing to strike a licensing deal with Napster in 1999/2000 the record industry forced file sharing to go underground, where it grew tremendously and eventually overwhelmed the labels.

Not surprisingly, the decision-makers within the record labe are portrayed unfavorably. These record company “tech gurus” turned out to be “old-school marketing people that had just come up through the ranks as enforcers.” They behaved as “irrational actors.”

Prof. Carrier paints a graphic picture of the extent to which the record labels were caught flat-footed. The labels didn’t view consumers as their customers, but rather viewed retailers, such as Walmart and Tower Records, as their customers. According to Prof. Carrier, one label spent $1 billion on trucks to distribute their CDs. The major labels were different because “they had trucks.” “No one else could put a CD in every record store in the country on the day of release.”

The labels were also confounded by the maze of copyright rights they were forced to deal with. The layers of copyright ownership are notoriously complex, and the labels had difficulties getting “all the stars to line up.” In many cases the labels themselves didn’t know “who owns what,” since older contracts were “vague or unclear.” In other instances, where the labels could identify the rights holders, they couldn’t find them.

Corporate inertia and self-interest played a major role in the labels’ reaction to digital downloads. Record labels often are part of large conglomerates, and the sheer size of the companies made it hard to adapt. Record company officials were always “discovering the Internet anew,” and “having to start from scratch.” Some in the recording industry viewed digital downloads as a “passing fancy” that they could survive by burying their heads in the sand. “Bonus inertia” discouraged the adoption of new business models: “incumbent senior executives whose bonuses are at risk and who have bosses to report to” are not “willing to take the career risk of being wrong.” In what appears to be the ubiquitous “I’ll be retired before the sh*t hits the fan” attitude, the industry suffered from “ignorant people just hanging on” who concluded they would be retired before the technology threatened their market positions and jobs.

Of course, the lawyers that work for the lables come in for scathing criticism. “Most labels are run by lawyers,” quotes Prof. Carrier. These lawyers focused on worst-case scenarios instead of business decisions that might exploit opportunities. The following is a quote from the paper:

Lawyers at the labels historically drove the digital agenda. There was no one there with a truly entrepreneurial spirit. Zero, zilch, zingo, nada. No one there whose entire initiative was not to hang on to the past.

Prof. Carrier’s interviews include venture capital investors, many of whom took a pass on digital downloads after Napster. He notes the critical role that venture capital has had in funding countless technology companies, listing examples such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. However the labels’ litigation strategy created “a wasteland with no music deals getting done.” “The graveyard of music companies was just overflowing.” The Napster decision led to a “lost decade.” To the extent the record labels were attempting to destroy the necessary “fertilizer” for the new online music industry — VC investment — it largely succeeded.

The ultimate beneficiary of this strategy was Apple’s iTunes service. Napster cleared the way for iTunes to establish a dominant position, locking the music industry into “the Apple ecosystem.” Apple launched the iTunes Music store in April 2003, and within seven years there had been 10 billion downloads. Illegal downloads from Napster seeded the success of Apple’s iPod, and the iPod prepared the market for Apple’s legal iTunes store.

There is much more in Professor Carrier’s law review article than I have been able to discuss in this brief summary. It tells a familiar and sad story. Examples of the “innovator’s dilemma” surround us today. It is obvious in computing (where it seems to be a constant), life sciences, the automotive industry and environmental sciences. Perhaps it is not an overstatement to say that, in this era of rapid technological and scientific advances, it is present in every industry. Human nature being what it is, the “status quo” often will fight a new paradigm, rather than adapt to it. The future is cloudy, and often that strategy will pay off. For the record industry, at least so far, it hasn’t.

If a Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words ….

by Lee Gesmer | Mar 28, 2009 | Courts, Technology

If you’re a lawyer with a case involving the complex interaction of physical objects (say a plane crash), nothing can compare to a video animation that faithfully recreates the event. Your expert can show it to the judge or jury, and vouch for its accuracy. Of course, it’s expensive to create one of these videos, but with Moore’s Law and better graphics software, it’s getting easier and easier.

And if you’re one of the many firms that creates these videos for lawyers, what better way to strut your stuff than to recreate the landing of US Air Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, with the actual pilot-controller audio overlaid? This is what Scene Systems, a forensic animation company, has done to show its skill. The two minute animation is here, with the recording of Sully and the controller synchronized to the action:

The Intellectual Propery Colloquium Podcast

by Lee Gesmer | Jan 19, 2009 | Technology

The Intellectual Property Colloquium is a very well produced podcast with “A List” judges and academics. The one hour shows are audio (which is the definition of a podcast), and can be subscribed to in iTunes. The current topic is A Conversation with Chief Judge Paul R. Michel. Judge Michel is the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Other topics include discussions on copyright, privacy and other IP issues.

If you’re a lawyer and you haven’t mastered accessing podcasts, podcasts like this are a message that it’s time you do so. And, it’s much better to listen to this than “Imus in the Morning” while you’re commuting.

When It Comes to the "New Economy," We’re First

by Lee Gesmer | Nov 21, 2008 | Technology

The New Economy – it takes full advantage of the Digital Revolution. It’s open to innovation, not just in IT but in robotics, clean energy, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. It supports a low-cost, low-carbon energy system. It takes advantage of opportunities offered by globalization. It accommodates regional growth in a balanced manner.

And yes, as was true in 1999, 2002 and 2007, in 2008, once again, Massachusetts ranks first, by a significant margin. The full report — The 2008 State New Economy Index, from the non-profit The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation — leaves no question about this. The states at the top of this index are “leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy.” And yes, let me repeat lest your attention has wandered, we are first, first, first. (n.b.: Washington is second, and Mississippi last).

Mark Stephens, aka Robert X. Cringley Announces That He Would Love the Job of CTO of the USA Under Obama and oh, by the way, His Last Column will be on 12/15/08

by Lee Gesmer | Nov 16, 2008 | Technology

Quoting from Cringley’s most recent column –

The U.S. CTO – at least this FIRST U.S. CTO – will be the buyer-of-cool-stuff-in-chief for the entire nation.

I would make a better buyer-in-chief than almost anyone else because of two important characteristics in my warped personality: 1) I would be immune to special interest groups so this wouldn’t turn into another National Information Infrastructure boondoggle, and; 2) yet as a true enthusiast I would buy with such reckless abandon that I’d easily fulfill the economic stimulus needs while spewing money widely enough to guarantee at least a few good technical investments for the nation. . . .

We need someone with just enough savvy to know good technology, enough independence to make the right decisions, and crazy enough to do it all 24/7 right out in public so that vaunted “transparency” we keep talking about yet never see can be proved to be more than just a modern myth.

I’m the man for that job.

AND I can use the work.

That’s because December 15th will mark my last column for PBS,

After 11 years and more than 600 columns I’ll be moving-on, perhaps into that big CTO job in Washington, but then maybe not. This is my decision, not that of PBS, which has been nothing but good to me these many years. . . .

Full column here. More on Cringley here.

Larry Lessig REALLY Can Do Powerpoint

by Lee Gesmer | Nov 11, 2008 | Technology

I’ve never been captured by Larry Lessig’s books, but once I stumbled on some of his online speeches and Powerpoint presentations (he doesn’t use Powerpoint, so I’m using that term generically), and I realized that he was a zen master of this art form (and it can truly be an art form). Here’s a recent example – Lessig on McCain on Tech. (And another great (and earlier) example here). Lessig’s presentation style is sometimes called the Lessig Method.

George Gilder on "The Coming Creativity Boom"

by Lee Gesmer | Nov 5, 2008 | Technology

George Gilder

OK, I know that George Gilder is a very controversial guy, and that he lost a lot of money for his investors (and himself) in the late ’90s and early 2000s. So, he’s a lousy investor. But, that doesn’t detract from the fact that he can speak and write about the future of technology in ways that can make your head spin and leave you gasping for breath (and, if you’re not very careful, calling your stockbroker to increase your margin account).

His article in the November 10, 2008 issue of Forbes is typical Gilder – thought provoking, inspirational, optimistic and (I hope) right:

The real source of all growth is human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, which often thrive in the worst of times–and are always surprising.

Knowledge is about the past; entrepreneurship is about the future. In a crisis the world of expertise pulls the global economy ever deeper into the past, where accountant-economists ruminate on the labyrinthine statistics of leviathan trade gaps, tides of debt and deficits, political bailouts and rebates, regulatory clamps and controls, all propping up the past in the name of progress.

The crucial conflict in every economy, however, goes on. It is not between rich and poor, Main Street and Wall Street, or even government and the private sector. It is between the established system and the new forms of wealth rising up to displace it–all the entrenched knowledge of the past and the insurrections of futuristic enterprise and invention.

A Typical Gilder Graph

Gilder goes on to identify four critical areas of development: cloud computing, graphics processing, nanotech engineering and energy-saving construction materials.

Read the full article …..

Welcome to the Metaverse

by Lee Gesmer | Oct 31, 2008 | Readings and Novelties, Technology

Wade Roush (technology journalist and chief correspondent at Xconomy) wrote an extraordinary article in the MIT Technology Review in 2007 which I’ve had in my “must re-read” pile for a while. Recently I picked it up and noticed that the article is accessible in full on the Technology Review web site (free registration required).

Here is a brief excerpt from the article, modestly entitled Second Earth:

[w]ithin 10 to 20 years–roughly the same time it took for the Web to become what it is now–something much bigger than either of these alternatives [Second Earth or Google Earth] may emerge: a true Metaverse. In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, a classic of the dystopian “cyberpunk” genre, the Metaverse was a planet-size virtual city that could hold up to 120 million avatars, each representing someone in search of entertainment, trade, or social contact. The Metaverse that’s really on the way, some experts believe, will resemble Stephenson’s vision, but with many alterations. It will look like the real earth, and it will support even more users than the Snow Crash cyberworld, functioning as the agora, laboratory, and gateway for almost every type of information-based pursuit. It will be accessible both in its immersive, virtual-reality form and through peepholes like the screen of your cell phone as you make your way through the real world. And like the Web today, it will become “the standard way in which we think of life online,” to quote from the Metaverse Roadmap, a forecast published this spring by an informal group of entrepreneurs, media producers, academics, and analysts.

This is extraordinary, futuristic stuff, but it reads like a valid prediction of the future. Click here to read the uncut article (which is over 7,000 words). If you have trouble accessing this page (perhaps because you need to register), start here to register and navigate to it.

The (now notorious) Sequoia Capital Slideshow – RIP Good Times

by Lee Gesmer | Oct 17, 2008 | Technology

Hard times, hard times, come again no more.
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.

Hard Times, by Stephen Foster, 1854

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Sequoia Capital Slideshow – RIP Good Times – Upload a Document to Scribd

Click here to read more about this presentation.

The Google Chrome Comic Book

by Lee Gesmer | Sep 15, 2008 | Readings and Novelties, Technology

The release of the Google Chrome web browser on September 2nd attracted a huge amount of publicity. The release of the browser was accompanied by a 38 page comic book, featuring cartoon figures of real-life Google employees, and explaining some of the features and technology associated with the browser. The comic book was illustrated by “cartoon theorist” Scott McLoud.

This is pretty cool stuff – hiring a top cartoonist to help you explain a new software product. Much better than a traditional technical manual!

A link to the comic book on scribd.com is below. (And here is a link to the comic on McLoud’s own web site, which might be easier to read online).

Google Chrome Comic Book – Upload a Document to Scribd

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