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"Reading Eben Moglen’s keynote address, “Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture,” I felt a bit like Richard Stallman while he worked to replace UNIX with GNU: reaching the same destination but apprehensive about the other guy’s route. Moglen, a law professor and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, discusses free software v. the behemoths of software largely in moral terms..."

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Eben Moglen, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1 year 1 week ago

"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, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation..."

Open-source backer: Software a 'renewable' resource 1 year 5 weeks ago

As a lawyer, law professor and software programmer, Eben Moglen is passionate about technology, software and user freedom. A former board member of the Free Software Foundation and the founder, president and executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center in New York since 2005, Moglen has worked to protect and advance open source and free software.

Eben Moglen Interview in India's Frontline Magazine 1 year 12 weeks ago

"...If you haven't read this interview with Eben Moglen, you really should. Eben discusses both the practical and the philosophical side of Free Software and Free Information..."

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20071019507610000.htm

Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation" 1 year 24 weeks ago

At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to join the conversation about software freedom.

Interview with Eben Moglen about free software 1 year 1 week ago

"I became a fan of Eben Moglen when I saw this quote from him: “We also live in a world in which the right to tinker is under some very substantial threat. This is said to be because movie and record companies must eat. I will concede that they must eat. Though, like me, they should eat less.” This logic could be applied across the board in society! Computerworld recently featured an interview with Eben Moglen..."

Firefox is 100% Organic Software 1 year 6 days ago

Er, tell people it’s free as in freedom, and embrace the Free Software Movement ! (see the quote of Eben Moglen about Firefox and Free Software... http://www.geof.net/blog/2006/12/10/eben-moglen )

-- via the standblog http://standblog.org/blog/post/2008/01/03/Actu-Mozilla

Eben Moglen: Why Software Patents are Bad, Part 1 45 weeks 4 days ago

"...The feature this week is the first half of a lecture given by Professor Eben Moglen on the danger of software patents..."

Eben Moglen: Copyleft Capitalism, GPLv3 and the Future of Software Innovation 1 year 9 weeks ago

"...Today I heard the best single presentation on open-source and free software I have ever personally attended, in a talk by Columbia Professor of Law Eben Moglen, on the topic “Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 and the Future of Software Innovation.” He spoke for over 90 minutes. I understand the session was recorded, and I have asked that a transcript be prepared.

Richard Stallman at BoS 24 weeks 3 days ago