Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It?

Eloquence writes "At the 2002 Open Source Conference, law professor and cyberactivist Larry Lessig, last prominently featured here because of the Eldred case, asked some poignant questions: 'How many people have given to [the] EFF more money than they have given to their local telecom to give them shitty DSL service? How many people have given more money to [the] EFF than they give each year to support the monopoly--to support the other side?' Luke Francl has interpreted these questions as a challenge, and decided to chronicle both his donations to good causes and his less voluntary payments to 'the media oligarchy' on this page: Lessig's Challenge. This is a good idea if others imitate it: If these pages become interlinked with each other, not only can they motivate us and let us track our progress, they may also help us to keep each other up to date about 'good causes' -- there's more than the EFF, after all. With Harry Potter in theatres and Lord of the Rings before us, should 'nerds' also be thinking about supporting those who fight for our rights to, say, play DVDs on an open-source OS?"

Comments

Re:Geez, Louise

[ducomputergeek]

How did this get insightful, think it belongs in the "Offtopic" catagory. This thread is about whether or not people *should* donate to the EFF, and whether or not other options, like donating time and effort to worthwhile Opensource programs, count as well. Personally I don't donate money to the EFF because I have yet to see any results and several of their arguments are slippery-slope at best.

Personally I put some time into a couple Opensource projects I find useful and good, like phpESP, Promisance, and Space Colony X. Which reminds me I need to stop posting and get back to hunting down that world bank bug in Promisance Enhanced.

Whether or not the Iraq issue will cause WWIII belongs in another tread or topic, not here.

Cheers.

PS There is nothing wrong with PLAIN OLD TEXT!