Breaking News: Faux-SBA scam targets small businesses

Didn’t want to leave this until tomorrow.
I have just received word from the Small Business Administration about a scam targeting small businesses.
The perpetrators are claiming to be from the SBA, contacting people by postal mail, and looking for potentially damaging personal/business information:
The fraudulent letters were sent out with what appears to be an SBA letterhead [...]

EMI, on the wrong side of the trademark suit this time

Entrepreneur Media Inc. (EMI) is making legal news headlines again, thanks to a fight between them and Ernst & Young over the trademarked phrase “Entrepreneur of the Year.”
Deja vu all over again.
I say this because, as regular readers of The MicroEnterprise Journal may recall, I covered the legal battle between EMI and Scott Smith fairly [...]

History’s first GNU lawsuit

If you make use of any Open Source software, no doubt you are familiar with the GNU General Public License, Version 2. Lots of Open Source applications use it, including this one: Word Press.
But how many people actually read that license or have any real idea of what it says beyond, “You don’t have to [...]

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