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  Eben Moglen Speech - Harvard - 2004
Moglen: The 21st century political economy is different from the past economic history of the human beings because the economy is full of goods that have zero marginal cost.
Moglen: Sure, it would be a very good idea, and if you watch and see what happens in the 21st century you'll see more and more manufacturers deciding to do precisely that, because of the value of empowered user innovation, which will drive down their costs of making new and better products all the time.
Moglen: I will say a little bit now, and in the interests of time also say that you can find in the Net where I put stuff which is at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu a paper called “Freeing the Mind”, which addresses this question, I hope comprehensively, or at least a little bit.
www.gnu.org /philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html   (9252 words)

  
  Eben Moglen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.
Moglen says that free software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical devices.
Moglen’s two main contributions are at 15:15 and 31:35 in.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eben_Moglen   (833 words)

  
 Lawyer: Open-source risks overblown | CNET News.com
Moglen is general counsel for the Free Software Foundation and is actively involved in the creation of the General Public License version 3.0, expected to be released next year.
Moglen's comments come a day after the announcement of an insurance policy from Lloyds of London around the use of open-source software.
Moglen said that there have been infringements to the GPL but many of those problems have been satisfactorily addressed without a court challenge to the legality of the license.
news.com.com /Lawyer+Open-source+...+overblown/2100-7344_3-5929015.html   (794 words)

  
 Retranscription d'une conférence de Eben Moglen à Harvard à propos de SCO, du droit des brevets et de la ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Eben Moglen is a scholar of the first order, somebody who thinks very big, and yet also very deep.
Moglen : The 21st century political economy is different from the past economic history of the human beings because the economy is full of goods that have zero marginal cost.
Moglen : I will say a little bit now, and in the interests of time also say that you can find in the Net where I put stuff which is at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu a paper called "Freeing the Mind", which addresses this question, I hope comprehensively, or at least a little bit.
soufron.typhon.net /article.php3?id_article=28   (10049 words)

  
 Free software's white knight | Tech News on ZDNet
Moglen: One aspect is the representation of free software projects that are in wide commercial use, so we need to be particularly sure about their legal situation.
Moglen: There are a fairly large number of reports to the FSF every year about people who are not abiding by the terms of the GPL.
Moglen: The reason why our plans for freedom work better than other peoples' is that they include a sequence of activities--proof of concept, running code and the solicitation of partnership.
news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-6051589.html   (2902 words)

  
 Eben Moglen Plone Speech, Annotated | geof
This is an annotated transcript of Eben Moglen's keynote speech at the 2006 Plone conference in Seattle, based on the video recorded by Grace Stahre, the ONE/Northwest and The Plone Community, and Versant Media.
What Moglen talked about is what I'm studying, and I believe I have a few references and insights that may help clarify his ideas or what this all means.
Moglen gave this speech at the 2006 Plone conference in Seattle.
www.geof.net /research/2006/moglen-notes   (7225 words)

  
 Eben Moglen - SCO v. IBM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Eben Moglen: Well, in all the cases that we have so far seen where SCO has claimed that code from versions of Unix had made its way into the Linux program, it has made two kinds of errors.
Eben Moglen: Well, the first thing we have to say is that the difference between this and the O. Simpson case is that in the O. Simpson case there were two dead people and that was an absolute fact.
Eben Moglen: Though I also see that the Royal Bank of Canada, which has invested $50 million in SCO, announced earlier this week that it was rewriting its investment deal to provide itself with powers of veto over lawyer-compensation agreements.
www.itconversations.com /transcripts/61/transcript-print61-1.html   (4901 words)

  
 Moglen: Linux Trademark Needs to be Policed
Eben Moglen, who is also general counsel for the Free Software Foundation and a law professor at Columbia University, was commenting on the recent issue of whether Linux companies and projects should be
From Moglen's point of view, the efforts of the LMI to protect the Linux Trademark (notably in Australia lately) are not necessarily something that should be applauded or booed.
Moglen explained that Trademark holders need to demonstrate their continuing efforts to "police the mark." Otherwise they risk losing legal standing to bring a claim regarding a particular misuse of the mark, or near substitutes for the mark, which could cause them harm.
www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3530001   (767 words)

  
 Eben Moglen - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Eben Moglen es profesor de derecho e historia del derecho en la Universidad de Columbia y colabora desinteresadamente como Consejero General para la Fundación del Software Libre.
Moglen opina que el Software Libre es un requisito fundamental para una sociedad democrática y libre en la que se está rodeado y se depende de dispositivos técnicos.
Las contribuciones principales de Moglen están en los minutos 15:18 y 31:39.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eben_Moglen#Publicaciones   (648 words)

  
 LWN: Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote
Moglen can take an absolutely uncompromising approach to software freedom just as well as, say, Richard Stallman, but he can deliver the message in a way that is vital and effective for a far wider audience.
Eben, however, is also pleased by the fact that, over the last decade or so, he has not had to take the GPL to court.
Eben is so careful about what he says, and how he says it, that any gloss is necessarily approximate.
lwn.net /Articles/133421   (5244 words)

  
 redhat.com | Visionary keynote: Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen, the Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center and a professor of law at Columbia Law School, issues a call-to-action to keep freedom safe in a time when innovation is threatened.
Class is in session as Moglen gives us an insightful history lesson, incorporating Ralph Waldo Emerson and the concept of Yankee ingenuity to illustrate the importance of the open source revolution.
Moglen, because this is one helluva smart guy.
www.redhat.com /magazine/020jun06/features/video_moglen   (127 words)

  
 FSF - FSF's Position Regarding SCO's Attacks on Free Software
Professor Moglen continues diplomatic efforts throughout the Free Software and Open Source Movements, and throughout the technology industry, to bring together a broad, coordinated coalition to oppose SCO, both legally and in the media.
SCO Scuttles Sense, Claiming GPL Invalidity by Eben Moglen, released on Monday 18 August 2003.
IBM by Eben Moglen, released on Friday 27 June 2003.
www.fsf.org /licensing/sco   (366 words)

  
 GROKLAW
Here is Eben Moglen's address and Q and A at Harvard February 23.
Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech - The Transcript - Authored by: jjcwolff on Thursday, February 26 2004 @ 05:00 PM EST
Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech - The Transcript - Authored by: Chugiak on Thursday, February 26 2004 @ 02:23 PM EST
www.groklaw.net /article.php?story=20040226003735733   (13013 words)

  
 NewsForge | Eben Moglen on Microsoft's Caller ID Patent License
Eben Moglen -- professor of law at Columbia Law School and General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation -- said this morning that Microsoft's new spam-thwarting plan, dubbed Caller ID for E-mail, appears to be encumbered with unclear and unnecessary patent license claims.
Professor Moglen contacted NewsForge later today and said that -- based on other text he was being shown from the license -- it may prohibit GPL'd implementation.
It's not the advertising clause, but the "deemed accepted." Under section 7 of the GPL, "conditions imposed" on the putative licensor that prevent him from passing to all others the freedoms conveyed by GPL preclude his distribution under GPL.
www.newsforge.com /software/04/02/26/1448253.shtml   (925 words)

  
 FSF - SCO Scuttles Sense, Claiming GPL Invalidity
Now that the tide has turned, and SCO is facing the dissolution of its legal position, claiming to "enforce its intellectual property rights" while actually massively infringing the rights of others, the company and its lawyers have jettisoned even the appearance of legal responsibility.
Far from marking the beginning of a significant threat to the vitality of the GPL, the day SCO scuttled sense altogether confirmed the strength of the GPL, and its importance in protecting freedom.
Eben Moglen is professor of law at Columbia University Law School.
www.fsf.org /licensing/sco/sco-preemption.html   (895 words)

  
 Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven.
In the first article, Eben Moglen, General Counsel to the FSF, tries to formulate the legal foundation of GPL.
In short according to Mogden GPL is based on the right of the author "The copyright holder is legally empowered to exclude all others from copying, distributing, and making derivative works.".
www.softpanorama.org /Copyright/eben_moglen.shtml   (2378 words)

  
 IT Conversations: Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and a leading advocate of open source rights, congratulates the open source community on their success in becoming an important part of current technology, but also discusses how important it is to protect the user's rights.
Moglen also answers a few questions, such as the controversy about GPLv3 and Linux, and whether software patents are more dangerous than other patents.
Eben Moglen is Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation.
itc.conversationsnetwork.org /shows/detail1712.html   (522 words)

  
 Author:Eben Moglen - Wikisource
Eben Moglen's linux.conf.au keynote, article on LWN.net, April 24 2005.
Eben Moglen's (slightly) lower profile, May 11, 2007 article about Red Hat Summit 2007.
Moglen’s main contributions are at 15:15, 31:35 and 50:25 in.
en.wikisource.org /wiki/Author:Eben_Moglen   (1208 words)

  
 Linux Today - IBM, Industry Respond to New SCO Threats
Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia University and general counsel to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), though says there is absolutely no reason for anyone to buy SCO's license.
Moglen, while respecting Boies' ability as a lawyer, finds it hard to see how this could be the case and that, in any case, he doesn't see why any corporate customer should pay SCO for a UnixWare license to continue to use Linux.
Moglen thinks that "SCO is simply trying to scare people about using free software by making irresponsible comments." He notes that, until recently, SCO itself was distributing the code they now claim violated their own copyrights.
www.linuxtoday.com /infrastructure/2003072201526NWBZLL   (1620 words)

  
 Furdlog » Eben Moglen at Harvard
The transcript of Eben Moglen’s presentation at Harvard for JOLT a couple of days ago is available at GrokLaw.
While, as Jonathan Z says, it was a bookend to the earlier visit by Darl McBride of SCO, it’s also a fundamentally important look at the notions of Free Software.
This is usually regarded as a positive outcome, associated with enormous welfare increases of which capitalism celebrates at every opportunity everywhere all the time in the hope that the few defects that capitalism may possess will be less prominently visible once that enormous benefit is carefully observed.
msl1.mit.edu /furdlog/index.php?p=1383   (420 words)

  
 IFSO: GPLv3: Transcript of Opening session of first international GPLv3 conference; January 16th 2006
In some places, when Eben Moglen is quoting from the GNU General Public License version 3 draft, there are differences between his words and the words of the license.
There are a bunch of other smaller changes, and Eben is going to be going through the whole license, explaining them step by step.
It's been a little lonely, and a little too secret, for the last several months, I like better the public practice of law, and it's a pleasure now to be in a position to talk about the work we have been doing.
www.ifso.ie /documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html   (9868 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Interview - Eben Moglen
And he should know: this hacker lawyer has for the past 12 years been official guardian of the GPL, and is overseeing the important process of crafting version 3 of what amounts to a constitution for the world of free software.
But Moglen emphasises that the principal reason embedded devices needed to be addressed was that they will have profound implications for users' rights - an issue at the heart of the licence.
As Moglen points out: "What they want is a very robust, highly debugged, completely stable, omni-competent, zero dollars per unit software platform for agile manufacture of devices in the future." Only one meets all those requirements: GNU/Linux.
technology.guardian.co.uk /weekly/story/0,,1742104,00.html?gusrc=rss   (1110 words)

  
 IT Conversations: Eben Moglen - SCO v. IBM
In 1992, Eben Moglen "signed on for the duration of the revolution" as the unpaid general council of Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation.
Eben suggests, "SCO's job here was to raise its stock price and merely having a contract and trade secret lawsuit against IBM was not likely to raise its stock price much." Hence SCO's demands that Linux users pay SCO a license fee.
Listen in to hear what Eben thinks about the future of infringement indemnification for open-source software such as is being offerred by Hewlett Packard.
www.itconversations.com /shows/detail61.html   (335 words)

  
 Discourse.net: Groklaw Scribes Eben Moglen
Groklaw has put online a transcription of my friend Eben Moglenand#8217;s latest public speech.
(Eben is a professor at Columbia law and also general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.) A Moglen speech is a performance.
Groklaw has put online a transcription of my friend Eben Moglen’s latest public speech.
www.discourse.net /archives/2004/02/groklaw_scribes_eben_moglen.html   (138 words)

  
 Slashdot | Transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech
Moglen told me if the JOLT folks did not produce a free format copy of his talk, he would do so himself.
Moglen is a treat to watch and hear; in an era of dismal public speakers he's a reminder that people once went to Court and campaign gatherings just to hear English rhetoric as a fine art.
Moglen makes a very lucid explanation of why the apparently-more-free BSD license is less valuable to people who believe in freedom.
slashdot.org /articles/04/02/27/1519219.shtml   (8853 words)

  
 Eben Moglen, Columbia University: "Is
Eben Moglen, Columbia University: "Is From Jim Gilliam's blog
Eben Moglen, Columbia University: "Is the RIAA and its friends doing some kind of technology surveillance?
It's another serious mistake by an industry going out of business in the stupidest way, bumping its head on the steps on the way down, because the record industry was always a bunch of thugs and that's what they still are."
www.jimgilliam.com /2001/03/eben_moglen_columbia_university_is.php   (168 words)

  
 PUNKCAST#964 Eben Moglen - Jefferson Market Library NYC - May 3 2006
The Metropolitan NY Chapter of the Internet Society continued its popular series of seminars at the Jefferson Market library in Greenwich Village with a session with Eben Moglen, a Columbia U. law professor better known as the general counsel of Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation.
Moglen argues convincingly that natural law, moral humanism, and basic economics, all together imply the eventual victory of the free (as in freedom) software tortoise over the scheming corporate oligapolistic hare, and is very entertaining as he does it.
Hear Eben Moglen on the same themes in May 2002 on PUNKCAST#156.
punkcast.com /964   (261 words)

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