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RMS Calls to Liberate Cyberspace
Henri Poole writes "In an interview with Groklaw's Sean Daly at GPLv3 Conference in Barcelona, RMS talks with passion about the dangers of DRM. From the article: 'the point is, we shouldn't be passive victims! We should decide that it will not happen! And the way we decide that is by activism. We have to do everything possible to make sure that those products are rejected, that they fail, that they give bad reputations to whoever makes them.' He closed the interview with a far reaching goal for the Free Software Movement: 'the goal is to liberate everyone in cyberspace.'"
Let me be the first of many, I'm sure, to point out the Wikipedia article on the historicity of Jesus.
And consider how much record there was of most people at the time. Consider Caesar himself: "Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written Commentaries (Commentarii), and many details of his life are recorded by later historians such as Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and Strabo. It is by these accounts, and these only, of which we know the clearest details of his life" (from the Wikipedia). Caesar, of course, died in 44 BC. Suetonius was born c. 75 AD, Plutarch in 46, and Dio Cassius c. 165. Strabo was born around 64 BC, but his History is lost and only known through quotes. For Caesar being such an important figure in Roman society, and Jesus being crucified as a common criminal (with an anti-imperial cult soon arising from his legend), how much better are the Roman sources for Caesar's life than the gospels about Jesus'?