Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center...
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The foundation believes that free software---that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users---is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific research is the only ethically satisfactory context for the conduct of mathematics, physics, or biology.
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The foundation believes that free software -- that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users -- is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific research is the only ethically satisfactory context for the conduct of mathematics, physics or biology.
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We think it's a serious problem; we don't have a solution to recommend. We regard today's draft as simply serving notice that this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.
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The secret of the GPL was taking a small quantum of risk and putting it on the distributors, ... The total risk could be brought close to zero.
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The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo.
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We are trying to do what we can, in a limited way, to use the freedoms that our license gives us to actively work against the spread of DRM restrictions.
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We'll release the first discussion draft very late this year or very early next year. We'll provide an extensive rationale as to why we made the choices we made and, in a limited way, why we didn't include some other suggestions.
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IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,
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Mr. Stallman made perfectly clear that his point of view is: It's enough. It's enough that the world has to pay attention to that (DRM) problem the way the world needed to pay attention to the patent problem 10 years ago.
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No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a protective haven where developers can innovate without fear.
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The big boys, corporations and governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned this time.
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The more we give away, the richer we become.
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Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.
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Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.