published Nov 17th 2016, 2:08 pm, by Shira Ovide (Bloomberg Gadfly) —There has been a welcome trickle of technology companies going public in the last few months. It seemed to signal an end to the IPO desert of 2015 and most of 2016. The relatively strong — maybe too strong

©2016 Bloomberg News O311896K5113 (Bloomberg) — Is software merely a set of instructions, telling a computer what to do? Or is it a unique, creative work that expresses a point of view and is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? The answers to these questions get to