Showing posts with label eben moglen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eben moglen. Show all posts
02 February 2014

Interview: Eben Moglen - "surveillance becomes the hidden service wrapped inside everything"

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(This was original published in The H Open in March 2010.) Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web c...
26 January 2014

"The H Open" is Closed and Offline; Here's What I Aim to Do...

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Long-time readers of this blog may recall that for some years I wrote for the UK Heise title "The H Open".  Sadly, that closed la...
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31 March 2013

Apple's Patent For Creating A Leak-Proof Data Pipe, And Why It's Doomed To Fail

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In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...
10 June 2012

'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'

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Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fig...
07 October 2010

Back to the Future Again: 2020 FLOSS 3.0

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Yesterday I wrote about my experiences last week at the Open World Forum. As I noted, the two-day event closed with the presentation of the...
06 May 2010

Diaspora: Freedom in the Cloud?

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One of the key thinkers in the free software world is Eben Moglen. He's been the legal brains behind the most recent iterations of the G...
16 April 2010

Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent

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Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I write a lot about software patents. The reason is simple: they represent probably the g...
18 March 2010

Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log

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Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is...
12 December 2008

GPL Violations: Is Cisco the Big One?

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Many sceptics were convinced that as free software spread out beyond hackers into the general computing sector the rigorous GNU GPL licence ...
17 November 2008

Gartner's FUD

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Good news: New research has highlighted quite how pervasive open source software (OSS) has become, with 85 per cent of companies currently u...
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09 May 2008

Death of a Meme: GPL Wins in Court Again

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On Open Enterprise blog .
14 February 2008

Code is Law is Code

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Code and law have been inextricably mixed ever since Richard Stallman drew up the first GNU GPL. Indeed, in many ways, the logical processe...
18 December 2007

More Icing on the SugarCRM Cake

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On Open Enterprise blog .
11 December 2007

Be Afraid, Verizon, Be Very Afraid

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On Open Enterprise blog .
03 December 2007

Eben on Software Ecology

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Eben Moglen is probably the most fluent and engaging speaker it has ever been my privilege to interview ; proof of his enduring appeal can b...
24 September 2007

All 's Well That Ends Well

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So Eben didn't get his lawsuit yet - but he does get another victory : Monsoon Multimedia today announced efforts to fully comply with t...
21 September 2007

Eben Gets Busy Over BusyBox

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One of the things that Eben Moglen has impressed on me when I've talked to him was that he - and Richard Stallman - have always preferre...
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31 August 2007

The Other Free Software Lawyer

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There seems to be some magic about free software: whenever a certain class of (intelligent) lawyer comes into contact with it, it redeems th...
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26 July 2007

Another One Bites the Dust - Nicely

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Here's double good news : SugarCRM Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) s...
25 July 2007

When Eben Met Tim

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I've always felt rather ambivalent about Tim O'Reilly. On the one hand, he is undoubtedly a very shrewd reader of markets, and has ...