Scripting News: Russo & Hale ignores my proposal

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Russo & Hale ignores my proposal

The Palo Alto law firm that used to represent UserLand, and was my personal lawyer for almost 20 years, ignored my offer to settle, and filed a motion to reconsider allowing them to represent the shareholders of UserLand in an action against me, VeriSign and UserLand itself. Oy!

If there are lawyers tuned in, here's the motion Russo & Hale filed. I wish they would seriously consider my proposal, and stop filing these motions, it's a total waste of time and money. Meanwhile they're becoming known as the law firm that files frivolous (and ridiculous) suits against their clients.

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:38 PM

~About the Author~

Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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