Don McGowan - Technology law at Microsoft (and the software industry)

Описание: Originally uploaded Mar 18, 2006 by scobleizer

Oh, oh, it's one of those evil lawyers! *Microsoft has hundreds of lawyers, but one of our favorites is Don McGowan. He is now a lawyer over in the game division but worked in Windows for a long time (he was trained as an anti-trust lawyer, but performed a variety of tasks at Microsoft).We sat down recently for a fun conversation about what practicing law at Microsoft is like and get his take on technology law. Patents. What software entrepreneurs should do to protect themselves.Anyway, here's Don, raw and unedited! * = Just kidding!

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