Eben Moglen Leaving the FSF

An anonymous reader writes "Eben Moglen, general counsel and board member of the FSF and chairman of the SFLC, has announced on his blog that he will be resigning from his leadership position with the FSF now that GPLv3 draft 3 is out the door. "

Comments

It makes sense.

[brennanw]

Eventually the all-consuming nature of that kind of job is going to wear you down. Getting out before it breaks you into a thousand pieces and then remakes you into a twisted version of yourself you barely recognize seems like a pretty good idea to me.

Re:New job

[Anonymous Coward]

"all the recorded outrage has been emitted by Microsoft or its surrogates"

No, it seems that Linus Torvalds took a job with Microsoft according to EM.

A brilliant guy

[mw13068]

I've heard him speak at a few of the FSF Associate Member meetings, and I've even had conversation over dinner with him on one occasion, where he was telling the rest of us about the fledgling SFLC project. Just listening to him made me want to start law school (at Columbia, of course).

I'm convinced he's working with a larger percentage of his brain than the rest of us.

Creating the SFLC was a brilliant move, as was the drafting of the GPLv3.

Best of luck, Eben!

Thanks Eben

[Marcion]

From all us geeks out there, thanks for taking so much time out of your day job as a Professor to run the GPLv3 process.

See you in a decade for GPLv4!!

Thanks

[Mateo_LeFou]

Someone said Moglen is the Thomas Jefferson of the information age, and I'm inclined to agree.

Re:RMS, license compatibility, toolchains

[Bruce Perens]

Haven't you done just that? Sure, you haven't practically given up most of your private life, but i would say that your years in the Debian-Project, the OSI etc. did not leave your life untouched ;-) Thank you for the great work you did and are still doing!

You're welcome! My son is 7 years old now, and of course it's important to spend time with him - you can't go back and fix mistakes you made with your kid. This is the major limit on how much I travel, why I haven't ever succeeded in getting time to go to Debconf or some of the other community conferences, etc. - I've got to be there for my kid. My wife wants some of my time too. And I have a job, so that I can put a roof over their heads. This is what Richard sacrifices, that I won't.

Bruce

Re:Out of FSF but not Open Source in general

[byolinux]

Um, yeah... except X.org is free software, heck.. it's not GNU software, but even then it was adopted for the GNU Operating System in 1984.