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Wendy Seltzer Interviewed
mpawlo writes "Wendy Seltzer was recently appointed staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seltzer is also a fellow with the Berkman Center. Greplaw has picked Seltzer's brain on her new position with the EFF, Chilling Effects and the greatest opera tunes."
A lawyer with coding experience. Very nice selection for the EFF. She certainly seems to a very good perspective, based on the interview.
I would think her background would give her a decided advantage in court against opposition such as SCO's legal team. Non-technical lawyers I'd expect would be rather limited in their ability to see the proverbial trees as well as the forest, leading to egregious, easily-destroyable assertions such as SCO's claim that, in effect, "Linux" is one particular whole, when a moment's consideration from one with a technical background would suggest it's actually a very dynamic, variable thing, and that to claim all Linux deployments violate a given set of supposed "infringments" is rather absurd.
I'd expect Ms. Seltzer will be able to bring good arguments to the table on this and many other Open Source challenges. Kudos to the EFF's fine choice.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
How about focusing on "equal oppertunities" instead, and hire the best person for the job, with no regard to gender, skincolour, cultural background or religion? I'm sure that will work out better, while at the same time makeing sure the rest of us don't have to hear people whine about how the new co-worker was hired just because she sits down when she pees (instead of standing up, like most guys do).
Just my 2 cents.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
Seltzer used to be quite active on a couple of mailing lists dedicated to preparing legal briefs in a Universal v. Remierdes Eldred v Ashcroft and similar legal cases.The lists were (and still are) idealistic and noisy, but the legal discussion (archived by Lexis-Nexis at one point) was a lot of fun.
You can't solve the social problem of sexism/racism with this, although it *sounds* ideal. People are born into categories that are inequal, and equal opportunities aren't enough to give them what they deserve - a fair chance.
I know that as a white male I'll gladly give up my spot at the state univ. if it will mean the university becomes less segregated. Then and only then, after the situation of unequal footing due to race/sex has been improved through getting to know people of other backgrounds more personally, we can say an equal opportunity is enough.
would ever work for today's SCO.
Judging by the quality of OpenServer, I'd say no one with coding experience has worked on it for a decade.
I'd post a torrent file for my SCO discs, but they aren't worth the bandwidth.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Why don't you look her up on Lexis/Nexis, read her articles, and then come to your conclusions?
I think self-plagiarism is okay. After all, I am the author of both stories...
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I get most if this information via text anyway... It doesn't matter to me if the staff attorney has their reproductive organs externaly or otherwise, nor if they can see their feet if standing upright.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
from the need-a-brane-for-my-master dept.
Heh, ya michael, I do think you need one.