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

ah great video, scoble! for me being a c++ (mostly unmanaged, though ) fanatic law student this has been extremely interesting. i especially liked the comments Don made about the lawyers having to say 'no' to a product or feature when the road ahead isn't clear and their inability to hint what has to be changed in order to pass legal.

the question there is, who is going to indicate the new direction for the new product or feature? is it all a matter of trial and error then? the product teams developing ideas and prototypes and the lawyers evaluating them and saying yes or no? is this the place for management to jump in (who know a little about everything, i'm thinking sometimes) and make a little more educated guess, but still a guess?
seems like an interesting place in business to fit in, at least...

i also liked the comment on being a professional pessimist a lot. one sentence a professor of mine is always saying is "create problems, don't solve them!" (not to be taken too literally). it's always like seeing a car driving over a bridge and then you're thinking of what could break in the construction, like down to every screw. to assess the likelihood of an incident? naah, that#s the judge's task

thanks for the video!