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Lawrence Lessig Elected to FSF Board of Directors
Free Software Foundation writes "Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig was elected to the Free Software Foundation's Board of Directors on March 28, 2004.
With Eben Moglen, the two most prominent academic legal minds on the subject of copyleft licensing now both serve as Directors of the Foundation.
Professor Lessig's involvement will undoubtedly give a major boost to the FSF's ongoing efforts to neutralize legal threats to software freedom.
The official announcement is here."
Lessig was elected two weeks ago and no one knew until today? How does that work out?
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
It has nothing to do with whether he's politically liberal or conservative. Note that he clerked for both Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit and Justice Scalia of the SCOTUS, two very NOT liberal judges; not the actions of a generally politically liberal person.
Lessig's latest book, Free Culture, is available online for free (both as in speech and as in beer). It was reviewed on Slashdot two weeks ago. I haven't read it yet, but I've read one of his earlier books, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, and thought it was excellent.
Lessig is no liberal, he clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Kennedy.
Not true; Lessig clerked for Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court, and for Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit.
Conservative judges can, and do, hire liberal clerks, and vice versa. Scalia, in particular, is known for hiring liberal clerks regularly. Lessig wrote an article for The Industry Standard about why there's nothing odd about this.
um, Lessig is already on the EFF Board.
fwiw, you might check out the streaming archive that I've been putting together...
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