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Lawrence Lessig Elected to FSF Board of Directors

Posted by timothy on from the appropriate dept.

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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  1. I think it's fair to say that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    RMS still on the FSF board is a true GNUsance...

  2. Please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Professor Lessig's involvement will undoubtedly give a major boost to the FSF's ongoing efforts to neutralize legal threats to software freedom.


    Explain how. Is it because another bleeding heart liberal who's is given a post on a meaningless board is going to continue to do nothing except "advocate" free software? BFD.
  3. gayyyyyyyyy who fucking cares (PS NIGGER GENOCIDE) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i got the magic stick

  4. Re:Would you have sex with Commander Riker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am Commander Riker, you insensitive clod!

  5. This is horrible by argoff · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  6. no one cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    who gives a shit?

  7. HEY MODERATORS !!! by argoff · · Score: -1, Troll

    The parent to this post is not a troll. Lessig knows all the harm of copyrights first hand but still wants to appease the media industries. I think he deserves to be hammered on it and I did. If people don't want to hear it, it's not my fault!

  8. The Operative Phrase by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    When I see some SUCCESS, I'll applaud.

    --
    Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!