Get a good business lawyer. Maybe try contacting the EFF or Software in the Public Interest(?) to locate a lawyer who would be willing to help cheap.
You can get some legal protection by incorporating (like apache did). Unfortunately this takes some amount of money.
As others said, Document document document. Keep an engineers notebook (stiched bining, numbered pages). These have a higher evidence value than a text file log because they make alteration difficult. One DOD project that I was involved with used these notebooks, not because the DOD wanted them. The lawyers for the company required them.
Just hope you don't get audited. In CT they can subpoena your credit card records. Anything they find that was bought on-line or mailorder will be taxed. CT has had a Use-Tax for a while now.
I agree. I read his article up to the huge excerpt from the Moody article. The Moody article was a complete piece of BS when it was published. Trying to prove a point by referencing nonsense like that completely turned me off to any other point he was trying to make.
He did have a few interesting points, but there is too much crap to wade through to find them.
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Get a good business lawyer. Maybe try contacting the EFF or Software in the Public Interest(?) to locate a lawyer who would be willing to help cheap.
You can get some legal protection by incorporating (like apache did). Unfortunately this takes some amount of money.
As others said, Document document document. Keep an engineers notebook (stiched bining, numbered pages). These have a higher evidence value than a text file log because they make alteration difficult. One DOD project that I was involved with used these notebooks, not because the DOD wanted them. The lawyers for the company required them.
Just hope you don't get audited. In CT they can subpoena your credit card records. Anything they find that was bought on-line or mailorder will be taxed. CT has had a Use-Tax for a while now.
I agree. I read his article up to the huge excerpt from the Moody article. The Moody article was a complete piece of BS when it was published. Trying to prove a point by referencing nonsense like that completely turned me off to any other point he was trying to make.
He did have a few interesting points, but there is too much crap to wade through to find them.