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."

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This is horrible

[argoff]

In a way Lessig is a sellout to the big media industries. They've exploited him time and time again to get people to hold off on outright copyright rebellion. Every time we've had it up to here with the likes of the RIAA and SCO, Lessing would come out and scream from the rooftoops that abolition of copyright is too radical, and those who see copyrights for the evil that they are get labeled as extremists.

Sadly, Lessig is the extremist, and even nurotic. If a mugger wanted to beat an ole lady with a baseball bat 10 times, and I wanted to force it so that she would be beat 0 times - Lessing would come in and say we were both extremists and suggest we beat her 5 times. He has absolutely no non relative morality.

The Operative Phrase

[Master of Transhuman]

the FSF's ongoing EFFORTS to neutralize legal threats to software freedom.

When I see some SUCCESS, I'll applaud.