Transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech

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Transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 27, 2004 @04:55AM from the preaching-to-the-choir dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw has a transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech + Q&A up. Good Stuff. During the Q&A he made a good point to think about: 'We stand for free speech. We're the free speech movement of the moment. And that we have to insist upon, all the time, uncompromisingly. My dear friend, Mr. Stallman, has caused a certain amount of resistance in life by going around saying, "It's free software, it's not open source". He has a reason. This is the reason. We need to keep reminding people that what's at stake here is free speech. We need to keep reminding people that what we're doing is trying to keep the freedom of ideas in the 21st century, in a world where there are guys with little paste-it labels with price tags on it who would stick it on every idea on earth if it would make value for the shareholders. And what we have to do is to continue to reinforce the recognition that free speech in a technological society means technological free speech. I think we can do that. I think that's a deliverable message.'"

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Re:FSF's General Counsel by QuijiboIsAWord · 2004-02-27 05:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't know why he bothers. U2 isn't exactly giving their music away for free... Seems like a conflict of interest to me.

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Re:Did you read the whole article? by irokitt · 2004-02-27 05:01 · Score: 2, Funny

You see, some of us actually have subscriptions...

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Re:Did you read the whole article? by millahtime · 2004-02-27 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

I was wondering why there so few posts this long after the post. Then I realized that most of the /.ers are actually reading this article.

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The Anti-Darl by IronClad · 2004-02-27 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Did you ever wonder what would happen if we get this guy into the same room with Mr. McBride?

My guess: A flash of gamma rays.
1. Re:The Anti-Darl by Curtman · 2004-02-27 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Heh, my favourite part of the speech was where he says that on the same day as Darl was speaking at Harvard, he was meeting with Darl's brother. Then says "The McBride's... Sometimes I feel like I'm in a Quentin Tarantino movie.. The McBride's..."
Re:Who? by Rakshasa+Taisab · 2004-02-27 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny

/. targets an audience that has basic web searching skills.

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Yeah, I wondered. by JoeBaldwin · 2004-02-27 05:32 · Score: 3, Funny

It went something like this.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

A mushroom cloud rises out of the room, and both Darl and him are vaporised.

The Slashdot crowd are puzzled at how to feel.

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1. Re:Yeah, I wondered. by IronClad · 2004-02-27 10:11 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  both Darl and him are vaporised
  
  I was thinking maybe Darl would be completely gone and Eben would look fresh and exfoliated: one less wrinkle. The two may be polar opposites, but one certainly has more substance. ;)
Shocking! by amightywind · 2004-02-27 06:25 · Score: 2, Funny

I got myself this new fangled PDA from Microsoft and the complete lack of GPL code out there for it is truely amazing.
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