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Wendy Seltzer Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the need-a-brane-for-my-master dept.

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."

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  1. Good choice by Empiric · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  2. It's not about 'lost jobs', it's about attitude. by WegianWarrior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  3. openlaw by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.