Man - this guy might have the best title I've seen in a while:
Daniel Nazer Staff Attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents Electronic Frontier Foundation daniel@eff.org
Daniel Nazer Staff Attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents Electronic Frontier Foundation daniel@eff.org
Who's Mark Cuban? See Wikipedia.[1] His expertise is in promoting sales-oriented companies and getting them acquired by bigger companies. His first big deal was selling Micro Solutions (a reseller of boxed software) to CompuServ. Then he got into sports webcasting ("broadcast.com") and sold that to Yahoo during the first dot-com boom. In each case, someone else created the content, and Cuban marked it up and resold it. That's his business model.
Wikipedia on "broadcast.com": "The record IPO made instant financial successes out of the company's employees through stock options, making 100 employees millionaires on paper (although most of them were unable to exercise their options and sell their shares before the stock price dropped) and founders Cuban and Wagner billionaires."
So that's who's behind this.
Also, every time I read about the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents I have a mysterious urge to watch "Zoolander".
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