stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company."

The reason of this law is derived from the gross injustice of making a person liable as the owner of stock when he only holds it in trust or by way of security, and from the inexpediency of putting a clog upon this species of property, which will have the effect of making it unavailable to the owner, or of deterring prudent and responsible men from accepting positions of trust where any such property is concerned. It seems to us that not only the law, but the reason upon which it is founded, applies to the holders of stock as collateral security, whether received from an individual or from the corporation itself. ItCouchbase, Couchbase Server, Couchbase
Mobile, Couchbase Lite, CouchApps, BigCouch, Touchbase, Membase, Memcached,
MemcacheDB... all different and yet related in a way not at all obvious from
the names alone.

First there was CouchDB, a database created by Damien Katz, a former IBM
developer. Its official name was changed to Apache CouchDB after it became an
Apache project.

A company named CouchIO was founded to work on Apache CouchDB and later
changed its name to CouchOne (by "its name" I mean the company name - not the
database name).

CouchOne (formerly CouchIO) merged with Membase (formerly NorthScale) to form
a new company called Couchbase. Membase (the company) developed Membase (a
product of the same name). Membase was created by several leaders of the
Memcached project and it used the Memcached protocol. After the merger of
CouchOne and Membase, Couchbase continued the development of