Ask Alan Cox, Activist

Posted by Roblimo on Monday May 6, 2002 @04:00AM from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Alan Cox is one of the world's most famous Linux kernel hackers. Lately he's been speaking out quite a bit on issues like copyright law, software patents, and the future of Linux, and has generally become a bit more politically active, at least in the public eye, than he was in the past. Slashdot interviewed Alan back in 1999. Lots of things have changed since then, but our interview procedure hasn't; one question per post, we send 10 of the highest-moderated ones to Alan, and post his answers verbatim as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Compromises and practicality by Rampant+Atrocity · 2002-05-06 04:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

In regards to restrictive (to put it lightly) legislation like the CBDTPA: Do you think that some sort of compromise could or should be worked out with the proponents of such legislation? That would probably be the best way to win over moderates in the Senate. Or should all efforts be taken to stop such legislation as a matter of principle? I'm just asking where you want to draw the line between practicality and principle (think politics).